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Sara Ramo

Madrid, Spain, 1975


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Sara Ramo appropriates elements and scenes from daily life, dislodged from their original places and rearranged in videos, photographs, collages, sculptures and installations. Formal and conceptual strategies are superimposed in a constant reenactment of chaotic reality. Ramo’s works seem to come from remote regions of memory or dreams. Her sculptures, in this sense, promote a transitional experience from the banal to the fantastic, using plaster and stones to create sculptures that suggest an unveiling of their interior. Ramo’s is a poetic practice that frequently uses everyday objects and procedures to shed light on what might seem mundane but reveals layers of our collective and individual existence. 


Among her recent solo exhibitions are
Los trabajos o el juego de la vida, Travesia Cuatro, Madrid, Spain (2022); Cartas sobre a mesa, MAZ – Museu de Arte de Zapopan, Zapopan, Mexico (2020) and lindaviejalocabruja, Museu Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain (2019). Ramo also participated in the group shows Intimidades Radicais, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil (2022); Arte y Arquitectura; un diálogo, Centro Botín, Santander, Spain (2020); Véxoa: nós sabemos, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil  (2020) e a 13a Bienal de La Havana, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam, Havana, Cuba (2019)


The artist has works in important public collections, such as Casa di Risparmio di Modena
, Modena, Italy; Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, Miami, USA; MAM – Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Coleção Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil; Coleção Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil; FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France; Fundación Botín, Madrid, Spain; Instituto Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brazil; Margulies Collection, Miami, USA; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; Museu de Arte da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Brazil e Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.