My relationship with the investigation process is intense as all I have in the beginning is a clue. I need to be immersed in the subject that interests me in order to find a map that can lead me to a formal synthesis. In the artworks, this is added to technical reinterpretation. The medium is also part of the investigation as it leads to the aesthetic tools that will be used to build an image.
– Leticia Ramos
Leticia Ramos explores the limits of the production and exegesis of analog images through photographic and film works, which she also develops into installations, objects, publications, and performances. Her practice is directed toward the aesthetic intersections between the documental and the fictional, occurring between natural and imaginary landscapes, between the discourses of historical records and those of invented characters, while simultaneously exploring the relationship between graphical memory and the nature of the abstract and spectral.
Using rigorous technical and formal procedures as a point of departure, the artist emulates aspects of scientific expeditions toguide us along ambiguous and atemporal objects and themes. In this sense, she builds inventive photographic apparatuses – such as cameras, models, and sets – to think about the use of these devices as elements of the speculation, representation, and production of geographic and poetic terrains.
Leticia Ramos (b. 1976, Santo Antônio da Patrulha, Brazil) lives and works in São Paulo.
Recent solo and two-person shows include: Galáxias, Mendes Wood DM, Brussels (2024); Campo Magnético, School of Arts, Portuguese Catholic University (PUC), Porto (2024); Ruído, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo (2022); NULL ISLAND, Jeu de Paume, Paris (2020); Resilience and Reverberation, Mendes Wood DM, New York (2019); História Universal dos Terremotos, Pivô, São Paulo (2018); História Universal dos Terremotos, Fundación Botín, Santander (2017); Planisphere, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo (2017).
Additionally, she has participated in group exhibitions such as Linhas Tortas, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo (2023); Between our knots: Ten years of ZUM, Pivô, São Paulo (2023); Enormousballs, Mendes Wood DM, Brussels (2020); O Triângulo Atlântico, 11th Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre (2018); Biennale Jogja XII, Jogja (2017); corpoacorpo, Instituto Moreira Salles, São Paulo (2017); Hercule Florence: Le nouveau Robinson, Nouveau Musée National Monaco, Villa Paloma (2017); 18th Festival de Arte Contemporânea SESC Videobrasil – Panoramas do Sul, SESC Pompéia, São Paulo (2013); Expo Projeção 1973-2013, SESC Pinheiros, São Paulo (2013); Se o clima for favorável/Weather permitting... 9th Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre (2013); Programa de Fotografia, Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo (2012); Trilhas doDesejo, Rumos Artes Visuais, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo (2009).
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Galáxias
Patricia Leite & Leticia Ramos Sep 12 – Oct 31, 2024 BrusselsA never-ending night falls, now giving rise to Galáxias [Galaxies], an exhibition by Patricia Leite and Leticia Ramos. The two artists present images and situations that represent or evoke skies...View Exhibition -
I See No Difference Between a Handshake and a Poem
Curated by Fernanda Brenner Oct 14 – Nov 25, 2023 ParisArtists include: Juan Pérez Agirregoikoa, Armando Andrade Tudela, Lucas Arruda, Karim Aïnouz, Adrián Balseca, Tosh Basco, Katinka Bock, Paloma Bosquê, Nina Canell, Guglielmo Castelli, Mariana Castillo Deball, Alejandro Cesarco, Henri...View Exhibition -
Linhas Tortas
Curated by Diana Campbell Sep 2 – Nov 4, 2023 São Paulo, Barra FundaLinhas Tortas is a multi-venue international group exhibition that celebrates the entanglements of journeys and the power of storytelling, marking a decade of Mendes Wood DM. Inspired by the Brazilian...View Exhibition -
Linhas Tortas
Curated by Diana Campbell Sep 2 – Nov 11, 2023 São Paulo, Casa IramaiaLinhas Tortas is a multi-venue international group exhibition that celebrates the entanglements of journeys and the power of storytelling, marking a decade of Mendes Wood DM. Inspired by the Brazilian...View Exhibition -
Ruído
Letícia Ramos Feb 12 – Mar 19, 2022 São Paulo, Barra Funda-If you see a big sphere you are probably in danger. In 2013, a mysterious explosion was heard in the far north of Siberia. People living 100km from the site...View Exhibition -
EnormousBalls
Group Show Jun 13 – Jul 18, 2020 BrusselsAdriano Costa, Fernando Marques Penteado, Sonia Gomes, Paulo Nazareth, Michael Dean, Celso Renato, Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato, Kishio Suga, Solange Pessoa, Paloma Bosquê, Marina Perez Simão, Lucas Arruda, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané,...View Exhibition -
Resilience and Reverberation
Leticia Ramos Jun 27 – Aug 24, 2019 New YorkMendes Wood DM New York Jun 27 - Aug 24, 2019 Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present Resiliency and Reverberation , the first solo exhibition in the United States...View Exhibition -
Resistance of a Body
Letícia Ramos Apr 18 – May 26, 2018 BrusselsLetícia Ramos is a photographer-scientist, a traveler through the centuries, revisiting the inventions which changed the way we represent the world. Her work is frequently the result of a long...View Exhibition -
Planisphere
Letícia Ramos May 25 – Jul 29, 2017 São Paulo, Barra FundaBefore you got here In the book The Lost World, we have an unnamed character who is present in all its 587 pages. It is a voice in first person...View Exhibition -
VOSTOK – Screening #1
Letícia Ramos Aug 9 – 27, 2014 São Paulo, Barra FundaThe I Ching, known as The Book of Changes, a cornerstone of the eastern cannon, became a source for consultation and an oracle, for various strategic actions adopted by different...View Exhibition
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