Martín La Roche Contreras

That different editors will approach their tasks differently in the museum is unavoidable. Yet this is all the more reason for criteria to be applied consistently and, even more important, that they be explained and their logic made accessible to users. The key to the catalogue entries found below outlines the selection criteria for inclusion into one of the three separate registers in the catalogue raisonné, and elucidates the individual categories.

Martín La Roche Contreras

Born in Santiago Chile (1988), he is a visual artist living in Amsterdam. His works often find their starting points from existing collections of objects and memories, archives as modes of storytelling which he reassembles into installations, performances or publications.

Musée Légitime
Good Neighbour
To see the inability to see

Muro Sur

Past: Collective reading of My Garden's Boundaries Are the Horizon, A Porous Reader to Unguard the Garden by To See the Inability to See, at Lydgalleriet for Bergen Art Book Fair.


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Sandplay, 2021

Together with Mirthe Berentsen.

Installation.

I Remember, curated by Inez Piso, Beautiful Distress House, Amsterdam.

Together with Mirthe Berentsen.

Installation. 

I Remember, curated by Inez Piso, Beautiful Distress House, Amsterdam.

Sandplay, 2021

Together with Mirthe Berentsen.

I Remeber, curated by Inez Piso, Beautiful Distress House, Amsterdam.

Together with Mirthe Berentsen.

I Remeber, curated by Inez Piso, Beautiful Distress House, Amsterdam.

Sandplay, 2021

Together with Mirthe Berentsen.

Inspired by sandplay therapy, this installation invites the visitor to select (or not) and object from the collection and place it somewhere in the sandbox.

Together with Mirthe Berentsen. 

Inspired by sandplay therapy, this installation invites the visitor to select (or not) and object from the collection and place it somewhere in the sandbox.

Sandplay, 2021

Together with Mirthe Berentsen.

Inspired by sandplay therapy, this installation invites the visitor to select (or not) and object from the collection and place it somewhere in the sandbox.

Together with Mirthe Berentsen.

Inspired by sandplay therapy, this installation invites the visitor to select (or not) and object from the collection and place it somewhere in the sandbox.

Sandplay, 2021

Objects from the 'String too short to be saved' collection, displayed and unfolded for this installation.
I Remember, curated by Inez Piso, Beaufitul Distress House, Amsterdam.

Objects from the 'String too short to be saved' collection, displayed and unfolded for this installation.
I Remember, curated by Inez Piso, Beaufitul Distress House, Amsterdam.

Sandplay, 2021

Objects from the 'String too short to be saved' collection, displayed and unfolded for this installation.

I Remember, curated by Inez Piso, Beaufitul Distress House, Amsterdam.

Objects from the 'String too short to be saved' collection, displayed and unfolded for this installation. 

I Remember, curated by Inez Piso, Beaufitul Distress House, Amsterdam.

Sandplay, 2021

Objects from the 'String too short to be saved' collection, displayed and unfolded for this installation.

I Remember, curated by Inez Piso, Beaufitul Distress House, Amsterdam.

Objects from the 'String too short to be saved' collection, displayed and unfolded for this installation. 

I Remember, curated by Inez Piso, Beaufitul Distress House, Amsterdam.

Sandplay, 2021

Objects from the 'String too short to be saved' collection, displayed and unfolded for this installation.

I Remember, curated by Inez Piso, Beaufitul Distress House, Amsterdam.

Objects from the 'String too short to be saved' collection, displayed and unfolded for this installation. 

I Remember, curated by Inez Piso, Beaufitul Distress House, Amsterdam.

Sandplay, 2023

With Mirthe Berentsen
Vom Spielen, Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Germany.

With Mirthe Berentsen
Vom Spielen, Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Germany.

Sandplay, 2023

With Mirthe Berentsen

Vom Spielen, Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Germany.

With Mirthe Berentsen 

Vom Spielen, Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Germany.

Sandplay, 2023

With Mirthe Berentsen

Vom Spielen, Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Germany.

With Mirthe Berentsen 

Vom Spielen, Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Germany.

Sandplay, 2023

With Mirthe Berentsen

Vom Spielen, Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Germany.

With Mirthe Berentsen 

Vom Spielen, Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Germany.

Sandplay, 2023

With Mirthe Berentsen

Vom Spielen, Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Germany.

With Mirthe Berentsen 

Vom Spielen, Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Germany.

Sandplay (BK), 2023

Together with Mirthe Berentsen.

An installation that reinteprets the tradition of the Sandplay therapy.

Yo tambien me acuerdo (I do remember), Miriam Gallery, Brooklyn, New York.

Together with Mirthe Berentsen.

An installation that reinteprets the tradition of the Sandplay therapy.

Yo tambien me acuerdo (I do remember), Miriam Gallery, Brooklyn, New York.

Sandplay, 2023

Objects in this collection were specially gathered in Brooklyn for the show at Miriam.

Yo tambien me acuerdo (I do remember), Miriam Gallery, Brooklyn, New York.

Objects in this collection were specially gathered in Brooklyn for the show at Miriam. 

Yo tambien me acuerdo (I do remember), Miriam Gallery, Brooklyn, New York.

Sandplay, 2023

Objects in this collection were specially gathered in Brooklyn for the show at Miriam.

Yo tambien me acuerdo (I do remember), Miriam Gallery, Brooklyn, New York.

Objects in this collection were specially gathered in Brooklyn for the show at Miriam. 

Yo tambien me acuerdo (I do remember), Miriam Gallery, Brooklyn, New York.

Sandplay, 2023

Objects in this collection were specially gathered in Brooklyn for the show at Miriam.

Yo tambien me acuerdo (I do remember), Miriam Gallery, Brooklyn, New York.

Objects in this collection were specially gathered in Brooklyn for the show at Miriam. 

Yo tambien me acuerdo (I do remember), Miriam Gallery, Brooklyn, New York.

Sandplay, 2025

Reilley Galleries, Providence College, Providence, Rhode Island.

Reilley Galleries, Providence College, Providence, Rhode Island.

string too short to be saved, 2025

Image of string too short to be saved

Sandplay, 2025

Memory Palace exhibition, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden

Memory Palace exhibition, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden

Sandplay

Image of Sandplay

string too short to be saved

Image of string too short to be saved

string too short to be saved

Image of string too short to be saved

Sandplay

Image of Sandplay

Sandplay

Image of Sandplay