Martin Soto Climent. The equation of desire

The Equation of Desire is the outcome of Mexican artist Martin Soto Climent's efforts to recognise, name and organise all the relevant and substantial aspects of his own life. Starting from this very personal standpoint, the research soon became an investigation into universal questions of life; it became a series of diagrams and a collection of 366 photographs about the human condition.

All of the photographs emerge from a similar process: Soto Climent rolls-up different pages of vintage photographic yearbooks in such a way that a new and surprising image arises.

At the same time the photographs become samples of hidden or unseen pictures, that exist in the material fabric of the visible world, but must be brought to life by a minimal and reversible human act.

This artist's book was published on the occasion of the show at Kunsthalle Winterthur, where The Equation of Desire was shown the first time.