Enrique Ramírez
Biography
Born in 1979 in Santiago (Chile). Lives and works between Paris and Santiago.
Enrique Ramírez is a Chilean artist graduated from Le Fresnoy. His films, installations and photographs, full of poetry, question History and the contemporary world, with the sea as a recurrent element of his creations. Born during the Pinochet dictatorship, Ramírez evokes in many of his works the bodies of the “disappeared,” those killed by the regime and often thrown into the sea.
In the absence of tombs and graves to mourn these lives cut short by terror, the sea becomes a place where their memory can be honoured. The works of Ramírez also include many references to modern-day migration policies, where the sea is a kind of limbo in which civil rights are nullified. Through texts, images and objects of great visual and poetic strength, Enrique Ramírez explores various questions on the impossibility of some bodies becoming places in which life can be fully lived.
Enrique Ramírez's work has been exhibited at International Pavillion at the 57th Venice Biennial, 7th edition of Daegu Photo Biennial (South Korea) ; Centre Pompidou (Paris) ; Jeu de Paume (Paris) ; Center for Contemporary Art (Tel Aviv) ; Museo Amparo (Mexico) ; Galerie de l'UQAM (Montreal) ; Centro Cultural MATTA (Buenos Aires) ; Centro Nacional de arte Contemporaneo (Santiago) ; Palais de Tokyo (Paris) ; Museo de la Memoria (Santiago) ; Kadist (San Franciso) ; Museo de Bellas Artes (Santiago) ; Video Art in Latin America from Getty Research Institute (Los Angeles) ; Fondazione Ragghianti (Lucca) ; Kunstraum Kreuzberg (Berlin) ; Musée des Beaux-Arts (Dunkerque).
He was nominated for the Marcel Duchamp Prize, SAM prize and the Meurice Prize. He won the Discover prize of Amis du Palais de Tokyo & Beyond Memory Prize for the Brises video.
His work is part of prestigious collections as MoMA (New York) ; Kadist Art Foundation (San Francisco) ; Musée national de l'histoire de l'immigration (Paris) ; MAC-VAL (Vitry) ; Pérez Art Museum (Miami) ; Museo Ampáro (Puebla) ; The Ama Foundation, Fundación Engel (USA), Collection Itaú cultural (São Paulo), Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos (Santiago) ; Fonds d'art contemporain - Paris Collections, FRAC (PACA, Marseilles ; Bretagne, Rennes ; Nouvelle-Aquitaine MÉCA, Bordeaux).
In 2022 Enrique has a major solo show at Le Fresnoy in dialogue with works from the Pinault collection (cur. Caroline Bourgeois, Pascale Pronnier, Enrique Ramírez).
Selected works








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Gallery exhibitions
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Videos
EXHIBITION
Incertains, Exhibition Centre Pompidou, Prix Marcel Duchamp 2020
CONVERSATION
Conversation about the works : Enrique Ramirez I Palais de la Porte Dorée
EXHIBITION
"Gestus I atto: rifare il corpo" avec une performance d'Enrique Ramirez au Teatrino.
EXHIBITION
Focus on Enrique Ramirez show at Galerie de l'UQAM, Montreal.
Press

Connaissance des arts
le récit de la mer
2022

artpress
TOURCOING:Jusque-là
2022

Numéro
Exil, identités, naufrage: l'exposition d'Enrique Ramirez transforme le politique en voyage poétique
2022

LE QUOTIDIEN DE L'ART
Rites de passage
2022

Flux news
Jusque-là
2022

EL MERCURIO
ENRIQUE RAMIREZ inauguró gran retrospectiva en Francia
2022

Le Figaro
PARTIR POUR L' ALTIPLANO DEPUIS LE PLAT PAYS DE TOURCOING
2022

Le Soir
"Jusque-là" : une fentre ouverte sur le monde
2022
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Publications
Los durmientes
Publisher: Metales Pesados
2018
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Los Durmientes [mar dulce]
Publisher: Centro Cultural MATTA Embajada de Chile en Argentina
2016

El tiempo, el animo, el mundo
Publisher: Museo Amparo
2015

Restos de mar
Publisher: Die Ecke Arte Contemporaneo
2015

Océan
Publisher: ÉDITIONS PYLÔNE
2013

Horizon
Publisher: Le Fresnoy
2009

Pista Central
Publisher: galería Metropolitana
2003