Centro Internacional de las Artes José de Guimarães (CIAJG) - Plataforma das Artes e da Criatividade / Avda. Conde Margaride, 175. 4810-535 / Guimarães, Braga, Portugal
Existe no trabalho de Sara Ramo uma tomada de posição contra um certo tipo de conhecimento hegemónico e contra as opressões que o mesmo produz, mas que não provém de uma moral, antes do aspeto tortuoso, “falhado” e indeciso dos volumes e dos materiais. Sara Ramo vive e trabalha em Madrid e São Paulo. Atirando Pedras é a primeira exposição da artista em Portugal.
Atirando Pedras and Algumas Violências are two halves of one exhibition project by the Spanish-Brazilian artist Sara Ramo (Madrid, 1975), curated by Marta Mestre, as part of a joint program between Centro Internacional das Artes José Guimarães CIAJG and Saco Azul Associação Cultural/Maus Hábitos in Porto.
According to the artist’s words, the "aching" sculptures that are part of the installations allude to what hurts and what is uncertain, what falls and what twists language, seeking to touch the promising interval between potency and melancholy. They take advantage of...a very unique composition of various materials and remains, making this “heteroclite” of materials their poetic force, which tensions the idea of a political art.
“And everything fits. There is no need to exclude the generated garbage. It is a vital matter to make them ours. Mine and yours: resistant generators. The metamorphosis will be endorsed by the tension between what lives and dies, all included, also what suffers and causes suffering.The invented, the secret mythologies of the worlds to be opened will be in a circle each time a beginning. So; there is no conclusion. There are fake rocks, slippers, dried poos, curtains on the windows, a glove, candy wrapper, cardboard. It doesn’t matter, everything is material and alive.”
Sara Ramo
Photo by Pablo Gómez-Ogando
Sara Ramo works directly with the elements that define immediate daily life in order to reconfigure them into strange and foreign presences. The alteration of the natural order of things is not a simple formal exercise, for the artist this represents the possibility to create new structures of sensitivity. Ramo participates in a vast heritage from a cultural tradition that has confronted the utilitarian and scientific perspective of the modern world; incorporating notions from mysticism, mythology and magic, the artist questions the relationship between human beings and objects that are only determined by utility. Fracturing this paradigm, new narrative possibilities emerge, involving spatial and temporal consequences.
Her recent exhibitions include: La Caída y otras formas de vida at Alcalá 31, Madrid, Spain, 2019; lindalocaviejabruja curated by Manuel Borja-Villel, Programa Fisuras, Reina Sofía Museum, 2019; Cartas na Mesa, Galpão – Fortes d’Aloia & Gabriel, São Paulo, Brazil, 2018; Para Marcela e as outras, Capela do Morumbi, São Paulo, Brazil, 2017; Los Ayudantes, Travesía Cuatro, Madrid, Spain, 2016; A mão negativa, Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2015; Punto Ciego, EAC – Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo, Montevideo, Uruguay, 2014; Desvelo y traza, Matadero, Madrid & Centre d’lArt la Panera, Lérida, Spain, 2014; Imagine Brazil, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway, all in 2013. Planos de Fuga, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, São Paulo, Brazil; Sin Heroismos, por favor, CA2M, Madrid, Spain; Penumbra, Fundação Eva Klabin, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, all three in 2012.
The artist’s work has been shown in international exhibitions such as the XIII Bienal de La Habana; 33rd Biennal of São Paulo, 2018; the Panorama da Arte Brasileira at MAM-Sao Paulo in 2011, Sharjah Biennial 11, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates and at the 2010 Sao Paulo Biennial; 9th Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil in 2013 and 2007; the Venice Biennale in 2009 and the 10th Anniversary of Inhotim, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Her work is part of international collections including: Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain; Fundación Botín, Madrid, Spain; Banco de España, Madrid, Spain; Pérez Art Museum of Miami, United States; Casa di Risparmio di Modena, Modena, Italy; Patrícia Phelps de Cisneros Collection, Miami, United States; Coleção Gilberto Chateaubriant – MAM – Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Coleção Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil; FRAC, Paris, France; Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brazil; Margulies Collection, Miami, United States; Museu de Arte da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Brazil; Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Sara Ramo lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil.
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