Graham Silveria Martin

Silveria Martin is a London-based artist whose work explores absence, memory, and queer imagination through painting and sculpture. His practice transforms utilitarian objects—most notably the urinal—into sites of haunting and desire, where presence is both abstract and palpable.

Layered with gesso and captured in watery paint, Martin’s urinals blur into abstraction, their edges dissolving like fading memories. In contrast, the glazed porcelain surfaces are rendered with sharp clarity, evoking echoes of movement and sound. This tension between figuration and dissolution reflects a recurring exploration of queer spaces, coded rituals, and the intimate relationship between object and history.

Serial repetition plays a central role in Martin’s work, conjuring the homoerotic proximity of the cruising spot—bodies connected in a single space through shared rituals. His sculptural spreaders, reminiscent of Felix Gonzalez-Torres’ paired clocks, serve as meditations on loss and continuity. Through obsessive reproduction, Martin does not merely depict absence but activates it, invoking past and future encounters.