She has felt an attraction for the visual study of human appearance, role taking, and the effect of time over social emotions. Her pictures represent an effort to understanding what people show to their observers in a continuously changing environment. Thus, “to want” and “to achieve” are synonyms of “to show off”. There is also an attempt to understand the role taken by people in a extremely comp
lex world, where the distinction between real and fake has little sense. Finally, emotions seem to be labeled with the 'best before' sticker. Thus, the traditional search for long standing values (love, family, honesty, ...) has became pointless within this context, and it is now an ephemeral effort. Characters represented by Marta Soul appear before the world as if they knew that they were nothing but a short-living image of themselves, they seem immune to the passage of time, showing the experience of the moment as something really stimulating.