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LU MARTÍNEZ (b. 1987, Lanús, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Writer, cultural journalist, documentarian, and interdisciplinary artist. Her work explores the intersections of literature with the audiovisual world, visual arts, ceramics, and archival materials. Her practice focuses on the interconnectivity of transfeminist, queer, and environmental activism, with an emphasis on nature studies, interspecies relationships, postmemory, spirituality, and human rights politics.
She studied Literature at UBA, graduated as a Screenwriter from ENERC, and completed a Master’s in Documentary Journalism at UNTREF. She has published the poetry books Prodigios (Ediciones Encendidas), Deseos de amor a Iemanjá (La Imaginación), Mis mejores amigas (Patronus), and Pranayama with @lei_bailemos_ediciones, among others. She has written scripts for over six documentary films screened in both international and national festivals, as well as in commercial and arthouse cinemas. She has worked for the past 15 years as a writer, screenwriter, and journalist producer for print media, TV, and platforms, collaborating with networks around the world. She teaches classes, workshops, and writing clinics, as well as yoga and tarot.
She was a resident at @archivosyactivaciones and the Poetry Work Clinic at the Haroldo Conti Cultural Center. Later, at Can Serrat, she took part in the Collective Creation program, where she developed a collective sculpture project using traditional clay techniques and completed her first novel, Los diarios de la Mala Suerte, which received support from the National Arts Fund, the Metropolitan Fund for Culture, Arts and Science, and the Cultural Affairs Directorate of the Argentine Foreign Ministry. She is currently working on the film adaptation of this novel, directs the itinerant art gallery AFTERpoema, and is developing a new ceramics series to be exhibited at the Argentine gallery Musgo.
Lu is in residence at Can Serrat during January–February 2024.
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