February 2025

By KIKE

February 5, 2025

LES PENSIONNAIRES 2025 – 2026 Villa Médicis

Résidence d’artistes, centre d’art pluridisciplinaire et site patrimonial de 7 hectares, l’Académie de France à Rome – Villa Médicis accueille chaque année près de 70 artistes, auteurs et chercheurs pour des séjours de durées variables, dont 16 pensionnaires en résidence

By KIKE

February 5, 2025

From the Other Side of a Landscape

Enrique Ramirez and Matthias PuechFrom the Other Side of a Landscape, 2024Total time: 53:18 Excerpt from: Vanina Saracino – From the Other Side of a Landscape:"You’re now standing in an enormous, empty glass room. The objects have vanished, leaving only this

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.