In connection with her solo show Wunderkind at Huis Marseille in Amsterdam, Martine Gutierrez talks with Elyssa Goodman in V Magazine about “childhood dreams, The Little Mermaid, artmaking, and what it means to become a swan after feeling like an ugly duckling,” Goodman writes.
In their conversation, Gutierrez describes going through the art she made as a child, the role her mother played in her development as an artist, and her preference for working in front of a still camera. She tells Goodman “I’m much more comfortable with photography over performance because you don’t have to be there,” she says, adding “I’m much less self-conscious because it’s just me in a room with my dolls.”
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