Enrique Ramirez

Enrique Ramírez (1979, Chile) lives and works between Paris and Santiago de Chile. After studying music and film, he joined Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains. He was awarded the Prix Découverte by the Amis du Palais de Tokyo in 2013, and subsequently exhibited at the Palais de Tokyo, the Museo de la Memoria, and the 2017 Venice Biennale. In 2020, he was nominated for the Prix Marcel Duchamp. His work combines video, photography, sound, and installation art, exploring memory, migration, and the sea as a narrative space, where history and the present are intertwined in an equilibrium between the poetic and the political.

His residency project, “Ánan”, is a research and creation project that explores the links between memory, migration, and representation through the study of a Yagan canoe — a traditional vessel of the indigenous people of South America — preserved at the Museo delle Civiltà in Rome. By linking the history of the indigenous peoples of Patagonia to contemporary migrations, Enrique Ramírez interrogates the sea as a space of memory and travel. His project combines archives, sound, and installation art to create an immersive work. At Villa Medici, his thoughts will be focused on developing a metaphor of a world adrift in search of a new course.