About
Martin is an architect and artist whose practice explores the scenarios at the intersection of modern infrastructure, emerging technology, and novel forms of wilderness. He uses these spaces to study how illegibility, deviance, and malfunction may provide space for alternative futures. He speculates on how these confluences may affect our practices, policies, and psychologies through a variety of lenses including and beyond architectural design.
His work has been included in exhibitions in New York City, London, Utrecht, and Moscow.
He lives and works in Los Angeles.
What began as a compulsion to articulate slowly transformed into a compulsion to document. To preserve something in memory, if not in time, of those spaces and moments that generally do not merit out attention, those parts of the world we see out of the corner of our eyes, the emptiness that hazes at the edges of our attention. An empty storefront, a graffiti encrusted fire hydrant, a mud puddle filling with concrete dust, a marred and empty service entrance, a stretch of the banal asphalt street, a patch of weeds. These are the spaces we make without intention and they are myriad and they are forever and they are a deep part of our lives.
All images © 2024 Martin D. Byrne
