The work of Jonathan Martin (b. 1986, lives and works in Florac) includes films and editions, connected by his interest in popular music, countercultural traditions, and the transformative potentialities of media technologies. His 16mm films share an focus on sensation and a predilection for austere structures. He is the editor of Turpentine, started in 2013 with Jean-Luc Blanc and Mimosa Echard. – Natasha Northam
Recomposing systems formed of echoes, migrations, tensions and interactions between esthetic and cultural motifs that are at times quite unrelated, Jonathan Martin views art as a poetics of passage where permutations and displacements offer the possibility of a new narrative. – Julien Fronsacq
studio@jonathanmartin.net
www.turpentinemagazine.net
- The Yellow Center, with Turpentine, c. Nina Le Cocq, The Film Gallery, Paris, 2022
- Veruca Salt (Soirée de l’Île), c. Simon Bergala, DOC, Paris, 2019
- The Rings, c. Julien Fronsacq, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2015
- Mithril, with Mimosa Echard, Circonstance, Nice, 2015
Solo exhibitions
- Chrystie Canyon, c. Nina Le Cocq, concert/evening at Bagnoler, Bagnolet, 2023
- Turpentine 14, event at Fondation Ricard, Paris, 2023
- Aoulioule, c. Sylvie Fanchon & Camila Oliveira-Fairclough, MRAC, Sérignan, 2022
- Home Clubbing, screening for La Nuit Blanche, c. Caroline Cournède, MABA, Nogent-sur-Marne, 2021
- Children Power, c. Xavier Franceschi, Le Plateau / Frac Île-de-France, 2021
- Fun House, c. Cristina Ricupero & Jean-Luc Blanc, Parc Saint Léger – Centre d’art contemporain, 2020
- Futur, ancien, fugitif (w. Turpentine), Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2019
- Remake, Frac Normandie Rouen, 2019
- Screening at Ophelia Vertikale, Rosa Joly at Mom Art Space, Hamburg, 2019
- Everybody is looking for something, c. Camila Oliveira-Fairclough, La Salle de Bains, Lyon, 2019
- Intoto 7, c. Julien Carreyn, Thomas Fougeirol, Pepo Salazar, Kunstverein am Rosa Luxemburg Platz, Berlin, 2019
- La vérité n’est pas la vérité, c. Caroline Cournède, Maba, Nogent sur Marne, 2019
- Kombucha Project Center, 2018
- Turpentine 10, Art : Concept, Paris, 2018
- Turpentine 8, Goton, Paris, 2018
- Intoto 6, c. Julien Carreyn, Thomas Fougeirol & Pepo Salazar, Fondation Ricard, Paris, 2018
- Black Pages, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, 2018
- How well do you behave? IN THE FLAT FIELD (w. Turpentine), c. Jo-ey Tang, Beeler Gallery at CCAD, 2018
- Screening at A Night of Philosophy and Ideas, Institut Français at Brooklyn Public Library, New York, 2018
- Hôtel du Pavot 2, c. Xavier Franceschi, Le Château / Frac Île de France, 2017
- Plymouth Contemporary biennal, Plymouth, 2017
- Turpentine 6, Mac Val, Vitry, 2017
- Intoto 3, c. Julien Carreyn, Thomas Fougeirol, Paris, 2017
- Turpentine 5, In Florilège vol.1 (Sangama), Paris, 2017
- L’Homme aux cent yeux (la grande revue), Le Plateau / Frac Île-de-France, Paris, 2017
- MINIM, c. Natacha Northam, Copenhagen, 2016
- Runes/Frise, event for L’Homme aux cent yeux (revue), Le Plateau Frac Île de France, Paris, 2016
- Turpentine IV, galerie Samy Abraham, Paris, 2016
- Soudain… la neige, c. Caroline Cournède, MABA, Nogent sur Marne, 2015
- Yes To All, Treize, Paris, 2015
- Inside China (Shanghai Station), c. Jo-ey Tang, Victor Wang, K11 Art Foundation, Shanghai, 2015
- Turpentine 3, Event at Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2015
- Inside China (Hong Kong Station), c. Jo-ey Tang, Wang Chunchen, K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong, 2015
- The 4D Project, c. Yukiko Ito & Fabien Danesi, le Pavillon Neuflize OBC, Onomichi City Museum of Art, 2014
- Partition des Passions, c. Jean-Luc Blanc, Nice, 2014
- Turpentine 2, Galerie Anne Barrault, Paris, 2013
- Ma prochaine Vie, Courtesy at Here is Elsewhere & ForYourArt, Los Angeles, 2013
- Une Chaînette relie toutes les pendeloques et forme le corps même de l’objet, c. Isabelle Le Normand & Jean‑Luc Blanc, Mains d’Œuvres, Saint Ouen, 2012
Selected group exhibitions, screenings and events
Other projects
Co-Editor, Turpentine (2013–now). 14 issues edited and published with Jean-Luc Blanc, Mimosa Echard, and our guests: Martine Aballéa, Matias Agafonovas, Simon Bergala, Bettina Blanc-Penther, Michel Blazy, Bruno Botella, Cécile Bouffard, Anne Bourse, Julien Carreyn with Clara Dupont and Chiara Mila Jason, Oscar Chan Yik Long, Nina Childress, Béatrice Cussol, Bertrand Dezoteux, Sylvie Fanchon, Thomas Fougeirol, Laura Gozlan, Louise Hallou, Yu Ji, Céleste Lerouxel, Andrew Lewis, Aodhan Madden, Ji-min Park, Emilie Pitoiset, Clément Rodzielski, Jo-ey Tang, Gaia Vincensini, and Camille Vivier
Co-organizer, La Monstrasse, a self-organized, self-financed film festival in Florac (2023). A 10-hour continuous screening of films by Bobby Brim, TJ Cuthand, Brice Dellsperger, Bertrand Dezoteux, Rosa Joly, Christophe Karabache, Johnny Karlitch, Jacques Kébadian, Anne Laplantine, Jonathan Martin, Fred Morin, Ov, Eunsol Ryu, Sequoia Scavullo, Philippe Simon, and Camille Zéhenne