Art Residency Archives - Enrique Ramirez

Art Residency

By KIKE

February 1, 2021

artiste résident à la Collection Pinault

NUMÉRO ART 14 SEPTEMBRE 2020 Qui est Enrique Ramírez, nouvel artiste résident à la Collection Pinault ? Pour la sixième année consécutive, la Collection Pinault invite un artiste en résidence pendant dix mois dans la ville de Lens, au nord de la France, afin de

Enrique Ramírez’s work combines video, photography, installations and poetic narratives. 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.