Enrique Ramirez

Ramírez was born in 1979 in Santiago de Chile and from the 2007 resides in Paris, France.

He studied Audiovisual Communication with a minor in Cinema, in the Instituto profesional Arcos and subsequently he earned a Master's degree in Contemporary Art and New Media, in Le Fresnoy, France.

Among his solo exhibitions include: “Boat”, Michel Rein (Bruxelles, BE, 2020); “A man who walks”, MAVI (Santiago, CL, 2018); “In the search of the lost wind”, Cecilia Brunson Projects (London, UK, 2018); “The Sleepers (mar dulce), Centro Cultural MATTA (Buenos Aires, AR, 2016); “the Remains of the sea”, Die Ecke Arte Contemporáneo (Santiago, CL, 2015); “The Sleepers”, Palais de Tokyo (Paris, FR, 2014); “Cross a wall”, Die Ecke Contemporary Art (Barcelona, 2014); “+ and Beyond that here,” Résonance Biennale de Lyon (Lyon, FR, 2011).

His group exhibitions include: Prix Marcel Duchamp – “Incertains”, Centre Pompidou (Paris, FR, 2020); Havana Biennial (Havana, CU, 2019); “MACRO, Museo d'arte Contemporanea di Roma (Rome, IT, 2019); “Role playing-rewriting skills mythologies”, Daegu Photo Biennale (Daegu, KR, 2018); “Viva Arte Viva”, 57th Venice Biennale (Venice, IT, 2017); “But the disobedience slept”, MAC (Santiago, CL, 2016); “Traces”, Espace 1905 Shenyang (Liaoning, CN, 2016); “MinatonoOmogatori”, BCC (Osaka, JP, 2013); Sharjah Biennial (Sharjah, UAE, 2011); “Chili, l has upside down du décor”, Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, Paris, FR, 2010).

He was nominated for the prix Marcel Duchamp (FR), the prize, SAM (USA); and the prix Meurice pour l'art contemporain (FR). He won the award Discover Amis du Palais de Tokyo (FR) & Beyond Memory Prize (IT) for the video Brises. He has participated in several homes, these include: CCA – Center for Contemporary Art (IL), MMCA Residency Changdong (KR) and FLACC, Workplace and Genk (BE).

Her works are part of collections such as MoMA (New York, USA), Kadist Art Foundation (San Francisco, USA), MAC VAL – Musée d'art contemporain (Vitry, FR), PAMM – Perez Art Museum (Miami, USA), Museum Ampáro (Puebla, MX), Fundación AMA (Santiago, CL), Foundation Engel (USA), Collection Itaú Cultural (São Paulo, BR), the Museum of Memory and Human Rights (Santiago, CL), Musée national de l'histoire de l'immigration (Paris, FR) and private Collection Lemaitre (Paris, FR), Collection Salomon (Paris, FR), Collection Richard (Paris, FR), Collection Gensollen (Marseille, FR), among others.

How to deal with the poetic universe that contains the sea?

Enrique Ramirez translates as a space for memory, in perpetual movement, where one of the axes of his work is to project poetry, intersecting narratives that contain travel, conquest and migration.

The work of Ramirez's questioning the history, the contemporary world and its distopías, where the sea is the recurring element. The vast landscapes that often evokes, are conceived as spaces geo-poetic imagination, territories open to vision and to wander. Generating a profusion of intrigues, in his works intertwined the balance between the poetic and the political.

Formats such as video, photography and installations, emanating stories within stories, fictions which exceed countries and eras, moving between the dream and the reality.

The policy of the exodus, the exile, and the discontinuity of the memory are made a part of this profound search in the silences of history.