Fotograf Zone – Emilia Martin

I Saw a Tree Bearing Stones in the Place of Apples and Pears, 2022–2024

Polish artist Emilia Martin focuses on a meteorite—a stone that at first glance does not differ from ordinary boulders, but once identified as a celestial body, it acquires new value and a symbolic dimension. It becomes an object of fascination and a source of myths.

Martin works with photography, installation, and sound to show how people attribute meaning to materials that transcend their everyday experience. In her project, she combines a scientific perspective with folk tales in which meteorites are perceived as divine relics, miraculous objects, or messengers from another world. She is interested in how a stone becomes a body charged with stories, how an ordinary object becomes a carrier of fantasy, belief, and cultural projections.

The project also includes a sound installation that complements the photographic layer with additional archival layers of the project, in which the stone becomes the bearer of the narrative. In this presentation, meteorites become a metaphor for transformation—a transformation of the meaning we attribute to them.

The work shows that transformation does not have to take the form of visible physical change or destruction. It can take place on the level of meaning, where an ordinary stone, thanks to human imagination and interpretation, becomes the bearer of a story, but also the trigger of myths that open up space for new ways of storytelling.

Co-funded by the Creative Europe program of the European Union, FUTURES is a platform to increase the capacity, mobility and visibility of it's selected artists and to bridge the gap between emerging and established artists.

METAMORPHOSIS
October 4–12, 2025
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Venue · Holešovice Market, Hall 13
Bubenské nábř. 306, 170 00, Prague 7 Holešovice
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Opening Hours · 10:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.

Emilia Martin

is a Polish artist and photographer based in The Hague, Netherlands. Working with photography, writing, and sound, she explores how stories and mythologies shape the realities we inhabit. Her practice is informed by rural mythologies, urban narratives, and intersectional feminist approaches.

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