EXPANDED LABEL: MARTIN MUÑOZ / ‘Travelers’ series
By Amanda Slack-Smith
‘Fairy Tales’ November 2023
Originally displayed at GOMA for the exhibition ‘Fairy Tales’, these 15 works are drawn from contemporary artists Walter Martin and Paloma Muñoz’s ongoing ‘Travelers’ series of snow globes, each of which presents a disorienting scene of existential dread and kitsch. Fairy-tale intrigue abounds in these works, which depict sentient trees stalking a woodsman, a figure in a hazmat suit confronting oversized mushrooms, and a murder of crows eyeing their prey — just to name a few of their mysteries — in minute detail. Each contains a unique tale devised by the artists, set against a stark, icy wilderness and projecting a feeling of unease. The name of the series itself is a cheeky play on the form: travellers they may be, but there is no escaping the fact these characters are sealed within their little worlds forever.
Connected objects
Traveler 201 2007
- MUÑOZ, Paloma - Artist
- MARTIN, Walter - Artist
Traveler 225 2007
- MUÑOZ, Paloma - Artist
- MARTIN, Walter - Artist
Traveler 263 2009
- MUÑOZ, Paloma - Artist
- MARTIN, Walter - Artist
Traveler 277 2009
- MUÑOZ, Paloma - Artist
- MARTIN, Walter - Artist
Traveler 289 2012
- MUÑOZ, Paloma - Artist
- MARTIN, Walter - Artist
Traveler 306 2015
- MUÑOZ, Paloma - Artist
- MARTIN, Walter - Artist
Traveler 311 2016
- MUÑOZ, Paloma - Artist
- MARTIN, Walter - Artist
Traveler 314 2016
- MUÑOZ, Paloma - Artist
- MARTIN, Walter - Artist
Traveler 319 2016
- MUÑOZ, Paloma - Artist
- MARTIN, Walter - Artist
Traveler 322 2016
- MUÑOZ, Paloma - Artist
- MARTIN, Walter - Artist
Traveler 324 2017
- MUÑOZ, Paloma - Artist
- MARTIN, Walter - Artist
Traveler 327 2017
- MUÑOZ, Paloma - Artist
- MARTIN, Walter - Artist
Traveler 330 2018
- MUÑOZ, Paloma - Artist
- MARTIN, Walter - Artist
Traveler 335 2018
- MUÑOZ, Paloma - Artist
- MARTIN, Walter - Artist
Traveler 348 2019
- MUÑOZ, Paloma - Artist
- MARTIN, Walter - Artist
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