Isabel Martínez

Photo Courtesy Of Isabel Martínez

WHERE ARE YOU RIGHT NOW AND HAVE YOU ALWAYS LIVED THERE?
Right now I’m in Bangkok, but I’m based in Barcelona. I’ve lived in the South of Spain, Barcelona and Brooklyn.

WHERE WERE YOU BORN AND RAISED?
I was born in Barcelona and raised in a little village close to Andalucia.

WHAT'S THE BEST THING ABOUT YOUR PRESENT CITY OR HOMETOWN?
Hometown: Barcelona. The creative community, weather, great food, beach,  friends and family.

WHAT WERE YOUR ASPIRATIONS GROWING UP?
I wanted to tell stories. I was good with words and bad with numbers. I’ve always have felt much more atracted by abstract thinking and intuition than rational thinking.

WHY ART? 
Should there be a reason? I think it was not something I chose, it just happenned.

WHERE DID YOU RECEIVE YOUR TRAINING?
I studied advertising and psychocreativy. Then I started working in an agency as a copywriter where I learnt the value of the conceptual thinking.

WHAT'S YOUR PROCESS FROM CONCEPT TO CREATION?
 I’m very focused on what I want to communicate but  I try to mantain a silence dialogue between me and the viewer. Not to explain the whole story, instead giving the audience enough space to complete the meaning of what they are looking at.

WHAT'S YOUR PREFERRED MEDIUM?
It depends on the project. For me photography is a very intimate medium, The team is small and everything happens in a natural way. On the other hand, there are projects that require involving professionals from different fields  (3D designers, programmers, illustrators...) Then, the results are more unexpected and I learn a lot during the process. This is the case of installations, motion graphic videos, designing products and VR environments.

WHO OR WHAT HAS HAD THE BIGGEST INFLUENCE ON YOU?
Jerry Siegel and Joel Schuster.

HOW WOULD YOU DEFINE YOUR PERSONAL AESTHETIC?
Mistery and colour are very present in my work. There are some creators that always move me. From David Lynch to Guy Bourdin and James Turrell, to name just a few.

WHAT MOMENT ARE YOU HAVING?
I feel I’m always in the same moment in a different way, “In Transition”.

WHAT DO YOU GET UP TO WHEN YOU'RE NOT WORKING?
Swimming alone and chilling with friends.

HOW DO YOU UNWIND?
Being far from the Internet.