Ana Martínez Fernández works mainly in the field of sculpture which she approaches through written and spoken language.  She is interested in the complexity of social narratives, especially the implications of the consumption of certain products and images, the paradoxical or contradictory forces shaping the mechanisms of desire, and the absence – or presence – of innocence in these mechanisms.

She studied Fine Arts at the Universidad del País Vasco and Contemporary Art Theory at Goldsmiths University College London. She has taught Criticism and Contextual Studies at the Faculty of Architecture at London Metropolitan University and has exhibited in Madrid, Osaka, Madrid and France.

During her residency on the island, sculptor Ana Martínez Fernández executed three pieces made of adobe and straw representing three guests at a party that is now over. ‘The work is the result of an investigation into geopolitical issues intended to provide a space in which the creative potentials of language and materials can be documented and explored.’