Your Demise
Adam Martin
10.07 – 10.08.2025
Giselle’s Books · Marseille
Opening Wednesday 9th July, from 6pm
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Employing multimedia installation, photography, indie-game environments and narrative design, Martin examines the collision of personal memory with larger systems of power. His practice explores the charged inner life of the young, disaffected male as it intersects with systems of desire, labour, and institutional power. Seduction and unease co-exist in his works, drawing viewers into spaces that feel at once intimate and disquieting. Martin frequently appropriates the formal devices of visual novels and other game genres, using their language of “agency” and “choice” to expose how authorship and narrative are, in fact, tightly scripted.
Adam Martin (b. Iowa, USA) lives and works in New York.
Recent presentations include exhibitions at Galerie Buchholz, Cologne; Etablissement d’en face, Brussels; Gandt, New York; and LOMEX, New York, among others. Your Demise is the first presentation in France of his work. It will open on selected days between the 10th of July and the 10th of August 2025, as well as by appointment.

This exhibition is produced independently, without financial or logistical assistance from any state, territorial authority, or any other public body.
Giselle’s Books would like to extend its gratitude to Salomé Burstein and Alexis Etienne for their support.
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Your Demise – Adam Martin, 10.07 – 10.08.2025, Giselle’s Books · Marseille
Employing multimedia installation, photography, indie-game environments and narrative design, Martin examines the collision of personal memory with larger systems of power.
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