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À la recherche du vent perdu [In search of the lost wind] Cecilia Brunson Projects, London

27 Jan 2018 to 9 Mar 2018 Cecilia Brunson Projects is pleased to announce a solo exhibition by the Chilean artist Enrique Ramírez, his first solo exhibition in the UK. The exhibition will focus on pertinent and key global issues and concerns, those of migration and the personal journey. Ramírez describes his concept behind the exhibition as – ‘In search of the lost wind was born from the creation of a flag, normally used on boats to see the direction of the wind. The direction of the wind is to me today a symbol of the questions, where are we going, what guides us? We live in a world that has begun to lose its way and where thousands of people leave their lands to find a new opportunity far away… far from who they are, it is then these imaginaries that interest me, as a reflection of what is […]

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« Estamos aquí, sobre la tierra y bajo el cielo », CNAC, Santiago, Chile.

El Centro Nacional de Arte Contemporáneo Cerrillos presenta la última exposición de su calendario 2017 inaugurando el sábado 11 de noviembre con dos artistas de destacada trayectoria: “Trazo Mutable”, de Máximo Corvalán-Pincheira, y “Estamos aquí, sobre la tierra y bajo el cielo”, de Enrique Ramírez, con la curatoría de Luz Muñoz. La mirada de los dos proyectos, que suman trece obras, invita a los ciudadanos a reflexionar sobre problemas contemporáneos. No es casual que se haya elegido el Centro Nacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Cerrillos, para que estos artistas reflexionen sobre la migración de personas en el mundo y el paisaje afectado por la sobreexplotación, la privatización de recursos y la extinción de especies animales y vegetales. “El CNAC, emplazado en la comuna de Cerrillos, se ha abierto a pensar las problemáticas contemporáneas desde el contexto del arte, espacio necesario en una comuna donde confluyen hoy una diversidad de orígenes […]

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INcoming – Screen City Biennial

We all come into this world the same way: with nothing. When we must move or change environments for reasons beyond our control, and when we are forced to flee, we often leave with nothing… to find a place that we can finally think of as a new land, rest our feet and reach a sense of belonging. Both Incoming (2017) and Sailors (2017) are  part of larger project commissioned for Screen City Biennial 2017. The works are born out of a response to the infamous image published April 19, 2016, in which the Norwegian immigration minister Sylvi Listhaug was photographed in the Mediterranean Sea abandoning ship from a Norwegian rescue vessel – wearing a protective orange survival suit – stating to the press, “You can’t put yourself in the same situation as the refugees but you can see it from that perspective [and experience of] how it is to be in the […]

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Un hombre que camina at VIVA ARTE VIVA – the 57th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia

Un Hombre que Camina (A Man Walking) (2011-2014) video Hd, sound 5.1. The sense of rhythm and timing is overpowered by the colossal sense of timelessness of this peculiar place. Shot in Uyuni, Bolivia, the film depcits world’s largest salt flat, a site that sits in a mountainous region at over twelve thousand feet above sea level. Ramirez’s work is deeply invested in the loss of regional identity, and the anachronistic dress of his “modern-day shaman” in the film is meant to reconcile the historical and cultural gaps between tribal traditions of a specific time and place and the all-too-prevalent homogeneity brought on by advanced capitalism. His festive yet ominous ceremonial mask, by extension, functions as a relic of colonial resistance: made by native coal miners to ward off Spanish invaders, the mask signals a need both past and present to preserve rituals passed down through future generations and across cultural […]

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The international sail at Kadist San Francisco

Lives Between March 8—May 6, 2017 Aslan Gaisumov, Dani Gal, Pawel Kruk, Runo Lagomarsino, Dana Levy, Tala Madani, Otobong Nkanga, Enrique Ramírez, Elham Rokni, Clarissa Tossin Co-curated by: Joseph del Pesco International Director, KADIST Sergio Edelsztein Director of the Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv   The International Sail at  by Enrique Ramírez Yesterday, the 28th of March 2017, I saw in the newspaper a photograph of Mexican workers writing on the wall between Mexico and the USA: “We are not criminals, nor illegals, we are international workers.” How does one use disadvantages to produce a new reading that can be nourished by a supposed weakness? To reverse a sail is an act that inevitably quotes Torres García, and it says: we can think that our horizon is not the north, we should look at the south, the south is our north, and it will always be that way, we are from the […]

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VOILE N°3 : Voile Migrante at Centre Pompidou, Paris

VOILE N°3 : VOILE MIGRANTE Centre Pompidou, Hors Pistes Installation participative, 2017 Une voile est un objet qui a besoin de vent pour respirer, d’un mât et d’un bateau qui la prennent en charge Une voile qui se déplace est un être libre, c’est le mouvement même, c’est un drapeau flottant et, en soi, un objet migrant Produire une voile à la main est un processus de transmission des connaissances, du savoir-faire Mon père, assis à sa machine à coudre, la couture, en zigzag, cherche son chemin comme pourrait le faire un voilier naviguant contre le vent Je pense que les éléments qui composent une voile sont également des éléments nécessaires pour survivre dans un monde de plus en plus étranger Nous oublions l’histoire de plus en plus vite alors même que le monde commence à la répéter Il est facile d’oublier notre histoire comme il semble facile de s’aventurer […]

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Mundial at Grand café-Saint nazaire

Exposition du 28 janvier au 16 avril 2017 vernissage le vendredi 27 janvier à 19h Enrique Ramírez appreciates stories within stories, fictions straddling countries and epochs, the mirages between dream and reality. This Chilean artist, who lives and works between Chile and France, often uses image and sound to construct a profusion of intrigues and to occupy the equilibrium between the poetic and the political. His imaginary worlds are attached to one obsessional element—his thinking starts with the sea, a space for memory in perpetual movement, a space for narrative projections where the fate of Chile intersects with grand narratives of voyage, conquest and migratory flows. His liquid images speak of the sparkle of a truth in permanent flight, the backwash of history, always repeating and never the same. Through the sea, he also brings in the figure of his father—a father who made sails during the Pinochet dictatorship, a man […]

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La gravedad

La gravedad / Michel Rein Gallery Paris October 20 – december 17, 2016 “Before all images, one must ask oneself, How it sees (us), thinks (of us) and touches (us).” 1 Gravity can mean many things, it’s true, but above all it’s a force; a force of attraction. When the artist throws pieces of black paper into a clear and transparent sky, this force is at work to make them fall back to the ground – light, fragile, vaporous. In the same way, when playing on contraries, he lights up small white papers on a night black background, creating an even more hypnotic contrast. “For me, these papers are like souls thrown into the sky, ideas, contestations, silent voices (that have been made silent), they also evoke the spherical aspect of the world, the night which reigns here, whilst it is daytime elsewhere” declares Enrique, touching on a very Borgesian […]

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Cycle Là où va le cinéma

PrésentationÀ la découverte des artistes du Fresnoy Bien des oeuvres créées au Fresnoy renouvellent le cinéma de l’intérieur, faisant de lui autant un art plastique qu’un art narratif, s’appropriant les nouvelles technologies de création et de diffusion des images et des sons, réinventant des genres historiques. Le lundi soir, mensuel Du 17 octobre 2016 au 19 juin 2017 Programme 17 OCTOBRE 2016 – Etats du monde 1 : douleur et résurgence Joao Pedro Rodrigues, Chantal Akerman, Enrique Ramirez Trois films où le fond s’en prend à la surface. Où la mémoire, qu’elle soit historique, politique ou affective ne se contient plus. 28 NOVEMBRE 2016 – Imaginaire de la ville Hee Won Lee, Joao Vieire Torres, Arash Nassiri, Anri Sala, Peter Downsbrough, Zhenchen Liu La ville et ce qu’on en fait : comment on y vit et comment on y meurt. La ville comme lieu des amours, des fantômes et de […]

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Le Musée Rural

A pendant plusieurs mois sillonné les vallées de la Bassée et du Montois à la rencontre des habitants et de leurs histoires, du paysage et de son Histoire, en y projetant ses récits personnels, façonnés par des réminiscences historiques et géographiques de sa culture chilienne. Dans ce territoire dépourvu de lieu dédié à l’art et où, pourtant, le patrimoine — archéologie, naturel, religieux et industriel — est partout, l’artiste relativise avec humilité son propre rôle dans la société et met en doute le pouvoir social de l’art et de l’institution culturelle en milieu rural. Là où aucun lieu ne concentre ni ne sacralise la présence de l’art dans le territoire, Enrique Ramírez, troublé de le trouver à la fois partout et nulle part, fait de son exposition un musée. Son Musée Rural est une projection. Ce n’est pas un musée de la ruralité, des arts et traditions populaires ou des savoir-faire […]