Martin Toloku is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice evolved over the years from carving to installation, performance, video work, studio practice and collaboration with animals, specifically termites and aquatic species. He is fascinated about the deterioration of materials, memories they inhabited primarily decaying objects such as wood, animals, plants by nature and ‘predators’. Collecting from water bodies and the immediate environment Martin assembles dead woods and cacasses in spectacular objects and composition. In his studio he is assisted by a host of termites as collaborators fed with wood and put at labor. He seeks to explore spontaneity as revolutionary aesthetics, experimental inquiries while investigating decay in relation to time, space, life and death. the relationship between living things and objects. In performances, Martin uses his body as a material object in a process confronting his own death phobia as a childhood experience and its manifestations in his sculptural installations.