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

with Mirthe Berentsen.

Installation.

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

with Mirthe Berentsen. 

Installation. 

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

Sandplay, 2021

Playing instructions

Playing instructions

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string too short to be saved, 2021

Collection of objects made available for play.

Collection of objects made available for play.

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Sandplay, 2023

with Mirthe Berentsen

Vom Spielen, Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Germany.

with Mirthe Berentsen


Vom Spielen, Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Germany.

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Sandplay, 2023

With Mirthe Berentsen

Vom Spielen, Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Germany.

With Mirthe Berentsen 

Vom Spielen, Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Germany.

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Sandplay (BK), 2023

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.

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.

string too short to be saved (BK), 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.

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Sandplay, 2025

Sandplay at Reilley Galleries, curated by Carol Stakenas, Providence College, Providence, Rhode Island.

Sandplay at Reilley Galleries, curated by Carol Stakenas, Providence College, Providence, Rhode Island.

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Sandplay, 2025

with Mirthe Berentsen

Memory Palace, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden

with Mirthe Berentsen

Memory Palace, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden

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string too short to be saved, 2025

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