Biography
Enrique Ramírez's work reflects his appreciation of stories within stories, fictions straddling countries and epochs as well as the mirages between dream and reality. Combining poetic narratives with video, photography, and installation, he 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 start with the sea; a space for memory in perpetual movement and a space for narrative projections where the fate of Chile intersects with grand narratives of voyage, conquest and migratory flows. The images speak of a truth in permanent flight; the backwash of history always repeating and never the same.
His work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions at Centre Pompidou, Paris (2020); 7th Daegu Photo Biennial, Daegu (2018); 57th Venice Biennale (2017); Centro Nacional de arte Contemporaneo, Santiago (2017); Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (2017); Fondazione Ragghianti, Lucca (2017); Kadist, San Franciso (2017); Centro Cultural MATTA, Buenos Aires (2016); Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago (2016); Jeu de Paume, Paris (2016); Museo de la Memoria, Santiago (2015); Museo Amparo, Puebla (2015); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2014); Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dunkerque (2013); and Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin (2007), among others.
Ramírez’s work can be found in the collections of Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museo Ampáro, Puebla; Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos, Santiago; Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona; Musée d'art contemporain, Vitry-sur-Seine; Musée National de l'Histoire de l'Immigration, Paris; and Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos, Santiago.
He was nominated for the Marcel Duchamp Prize, Paris (2020) and won the Discover prize of Amis du Palais de Tokyo Paris (2013) and Honorific prize, Videobrasil, São Paulo (2013).
Ramírez studied popular music and cinema at the Institut of Arts and Communication ARCOS, Santiago (2001–2002). He received an MA in Contemporary Art and New Media of Le Fresnoy from Studio National des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing, France (2009).
Born in 1979 in Santiago, Ramírez lives and works between Paris and Santiago.
SAF participation:
Genealogies in the Middle East and Latin America (2021)
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