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Martin Daiber
Martin Daiber
b. 1979, Santiago, Chile. Lives and works in Santiago, Chile.
Martin Daiber’s artistic journey is a testament to his exploration of organised chaos, where structures aspire to break free from their confines, and clipped elements suggest thoughtful systems of representation.
His creative process, deeply rooted in painting and sculpture, unfolds within the confines of the studio, where a chain of movements generates a primordial search for a formally independent image. Drawing inspiration from what has traditionally been called “primitivism” in the history of art, Daiber’s work embodies a direct connection between ideas and their materialisation — evoking cultures formerly classified as “primitive” while maintaining a rigorous and contemporary visual intelligence.
In his work, figuration and abstraction do not alternate — they coexist. Primitive human forms drawn in heavy black lines inhabit the same surface as pure geometric fragments: triangles, circles, rectangles scattered on paper or canvas that are themselves layered, torn and repurposed. The result is a visual language where the archaic and the constructed speak simultaneously, without hierarchy.
Through an intuitive process in which ideas and decisions intersect and corrupt one another, Daiber navigates the tension between order and dissolution, seeking ambiguity that invites observers into an open narrative. Inspired by the sincere visuality of children’s drawings, he aims to capture the pure and unprejudiced essence of subjective experience — recognising children’s innate ability to depart from conventional frames, while acknowledging the gradual loss of this genuineness that makes its recovery all the more urgent.
“My artistic research is grounded in studio work, through painting and sculpture. Within this framework of insistence on making, a chain of movements takes shape — one that, as time advances, resolves questions while generating new ones. Each work proposes a primordial search: the genesis of a formally independent image through a process fought out on the surface — an intuitive process in which ideas and decisions intersect and corrupt one another to arrive at a common end. The origin lies in the parallel between art and life, with art as the expressive channel of existential experience, as the path through which the unconscious surfaces and materialises, becoming the formal testimony of that experience.”
— Martin Daiber
This artwork is part of the Eritage exhibition “Drinking from the Same River” | Esta obra integra a exposição “Drinking from the Same River” na Eritage Studio Gallery
Opening of the exhibition “Drinking from the Same River”
