The project Made in Chile comprises the artist's research into emergency and social housing in Chile within the context before and after the 2010 earthquake. Josep Maria Martín set about considering more flexible accommodation solutions for poor families from different regions, communities and identities, visiting sites and collective accommodation and interviewing architects, politicians, intellectuals and residents themselves.
In this exhibition the artist presents a series of photographs of his visit to the camp in Caleta Chipana, in Iquique, Northern Chile, where he analyzed the residents' own constructions, achievements and shortcomings, within the context of illegally occupied sites which, while they serve to develop a community and identity, lack basic services and infrastructure. These camps, potentially a transitional stage towards basic housing, represented the artist's initial laboratory as he moved on from basic assumptions about housing to an exploration of personal development in today's world. Josep Maria Martín's projects use art to create new strategies for intervention in consolidated structures. With a subjective and reflective approach, the artist questions and criticizes the reality with which he chooses to work. Martín's concern lies in life transformed by art and the art of living while transforming. This artistic and political process involves a subjectivity which allows him to adopt a critical perspective on the world's complexities. For him, what is essential is a paradigm shift giving rise to the creation of new images in a process of permanent criticism and ethical action.
