N/irgend-wo

At the core of Martina Latimer’s practice lies her sustained interest in the visual articulation of the unspoken, with the aim of creating images that can speak on their own. This body of work extends that enquiry through a deeper engagement with Jacques Derrida’s concept of the idiom as an event of untranslatability.
The German exhibition title, translating loosely as “nowhere” and “somewhere,” foregrounds shifting and unstable meaning.
The works begin with photographs of the artist’s houseplants, familiar domestic forms. Through strategies of zooming and cropping, she isolates fragments that delineate the pictorial space. Gerhard Richter’s interrogation of the relationship between photography and painting has been formative for her approach. She translates selected images into paint through translucency, blur, and chromatic shifts. The result are deliberately ambiguous visual fields. Latimer’s painterly response remains intuitive rather than predetermined.
The houseplant reappears as both specific and unplaceable, suspended between recognition and abstraction.
In this in-between, the works gesture toward what cannot be fully said, but might be felt and transformed into new meaning.

Solo Exhibition at Art Space Teneriffe, Jan Manton Gallery

24th - 30th of August 2026
Opening night: Thursday, 27th of August, 6:00-8:00pm
Artist Talk: Saturday, 29th of August 1:30pm