Martín Sastre, U from Uruguay - El Perfume de Pepe . Production still.
Uruguayan artist Martín Sastre works in the spheres of film and contemporary art. His projects include the feature length musical Miss Tacuarembo (2010), and Diana: The Rose Conspiracy (2005), a short film about Diana, Princess of Wales who is found alive and well in Montevideo. Sastre also produced the multi-platform work U for Uruguay (2013) which was shown at the 2013 Venice Biennale alongside two other components - a video advertisement which played ironically with the imagery of luxury perfume campaigns and national pride, and a performative work that involved the actual making of a perfume extracted from flowers grown by the past president of Uruguay José Muljica. Muljica is considered by many as the “world’s most humble president”, gave away 90% of his income to the Uruguayan people.
Sastre is the founder of LALA Link Audiovisual Latino Americano an online platform for moving image collaboration. He is also involved with a campaign to save Uruguay’s Cinemateca (film archive), recently supported by Martin Scorcese.
During her residency with Te Whare Hēra Huber continued her work on this larger project. In Karakia - The Resetting Ceremony (2015) Huber with Jeff Mahuika (Ngāi Tahu), a greenstone carver, set out to Agassiz Glacier in Aotearoa/New Zealand’s Southern Alps to symbolically 'un-name' and 'cleanse' the glacier of any associations Agassiz had with it.
Martín Sastre’s residency was supported by Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamāki. For more information on Martín Sastre visit his website
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