in situ 🏔️
saying goodbye to this lovely studio next month. NY friends, let me know if you want a studio visit before the switcheroo!
on view at @ahmaitland curated by @the_deposition
Hasret is a concept from Ottoman poetry that expresses yearning, or pensive longing. It references a feeling of disquiet experienced by a person as they move towards the west, away from their origins in the east, towards the setting sun.
This reinterpreted movement could reference a longing for a time gone by as one shifts towards an uncertain future. There is a splitting between the self of the present and a self of the now-inaccessible past. Either way, hasret yearns for something that may have been lost forever.
On view now through July 5 @ahmaitland
For inquiries please contact [email protected]
I’m running out of thread puns 🪡🧶🧵
For inquiries and acquisition information about work in the exhibition, please contact [email protected] for more details
Our sincere thanks to writer Jenna Marina Lee and @unitedarts_cf for their brilliant feature on our just opened exhibition, a loom, a fence, a wire, a thread the first solo museum exhibition for artist Mär Martinez @meatvoid The press we have gotten for this new exhibition has been wonderful. This incredible new body of work, was produced by Mär on her Fulbright Fellowship in Istanbul, Türkiye. @ahmaitland Tuesday thru Sunday 11 to 4.
My sincere thanks to the amazing writer Patrick Connolly and to the @orlandosentinel for their wonderful feature (in the Style & Home section of today’s paper) on our new exhibition. The opening reception for a loom, a fence, a wire, a thread, the first solo museum exhibition for artist Mär Martinez @meatvoid was last night and 250 beautiful souls came out to celebrate this incredible body of new work.
🗣️🗣️extra extra 🗣️🗣️ read all about it!
Thank you to Matthew Moyer at @orlandoweekly newspaper for this beautiful article about my first solo exhibition at a museum!
a loom, a fence, a wire, a thread opens tomorrow from 6-9 at Art & History Museums Maitland 🌞 read the full article when it posts online later today at orlandweekly.com
Thank you so much to @elizabethgreenshieldsfdn 👼
Celebrate the opening the opening of our newest exhibition, "a loom, a fence, a wire, a thread" by Mär Martinez, with music by DJ Nigel John, food from La Patrona Tacos & Birria House food truck, and a cash bar on our National Historic Landmark grounds!
🗓️Friday, April 24
⏰6:30-9pm
🔗 FREE tickets at the link in bio!
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About the Exhibition:
Mär Martinez, a Syrian American artist and Fulbright scholar, presents new work developed during her 2025–26 Fulbright research in Istanbul. Her project investigates traditional Turkish and Middle Eastern textile techniques while reflecting on themes of urbanization, surveillance, and cultural memory. Drawing from nighttime walks through Istanbul’s neighborhoods, Martinez transforms architectural barriers, barbed wire, fences, hostile design, into motifs of resistance and reweaving. Her haunting wood paintings explore personal heritage, global textile history, and contemporary social commentary in poetic, layered form.
