November 2024

By KIKE

November 25, 2024

Text for Elainealain / The Rhythm of Return by Joseph Del Pesco & Enar de Dios Rodríguez

All inquiries have a moment in time. This moment is moved by the changing winds in Enrique Ramirez’ life, that are being redirected thanks to a new compass: his recently arrived daughter. Her presence has precipitated a new series of

Enrique Ramírez’s work combines video, photography, installations and poetic narratives. Ramírez appreciates stories within stories, fictions straddling countries and epochs, the mirages between dream and reality. This Chilean artist, who lives and works between Chile and France, often uses image and sound to construct a profusion of intrigues and to occupy the equilibrium between the poetic and the political. His imaginary worlds are attached to one obsessional element—his thinking starts with the sea, a space for memory in perpetual movement, a space for narrative projections where the fate of Chile intersects with grand narratives of voyage, conquest and migratory flows. His liquid images speak of the sparkle of a truth in permanent flight, the backwash of history, always repeating and never the same.