The works of Arjan Martins embody latent concepts of migration and other displacements of bodies and presences between spaces of struggle and power. The artist develops a unique pictorial technique throughout the process of constructing his canvases and addresses the diasporas and colonial movements that took place in Afro-Atlantic territories. Arjan formulates an artistic analysis in a supra-real time, where his imagery and the expression of his impulses engage with and react to the symbols of the era of maritime expansion and the enslavement of Black bodies, such as the caravel, the disputed globe, enslaved Africans, and navigation tools as markers of that time.