The Tropic Night| Curator: Orlando Britto-Jinorio| Yapci Ramos| Islas Canarias| Foundation INSIGHT f
- www.nelsongonzalez.org
- 19 oct 2012
- 1 Min. de lectura
My proposal as a guest curator in this encounter in Aruba is to present a project by the Canarian artist Yapci Ramos. I am talking about an artist of Canarian origin, internationally renowned, that simultaneously resides between the Canary Islands and the city of Barcelona.
Yapci Ramos is a good example of a contemporary young artist placed in the world without renouncing to her insular condition, a space which she continuously holds talks with and from which she generates reflection spaces on practically universal problems; an islander and in the world. From her work, I am very interested in her ability to connect with social problems from a very close perspective, respectful and subtle. I am referring to her photographic works with marginal characters that verge almost on the social «freaks» or to her ability to, in a very natural way, go deeper into the most intimate cohabitation spaces. She has developed workshops with a wide social and committable significance, working on the self-esteem of marginal groups like that of streetwalkers, whom she has turned into authentic protagonists in the design, making and construction of a joint artistic project.
The new work Yapci Ramos displays in this Encounter, under the title The Night in the Tropic, is a new proposal about this marginal social group visually presented from its absences. They are meeting spaces, solitary benches in parks and gardens in the faintnight lights, photographed by the artist on this occasion to present a parallel reality that coexists in these spaces for leisure and ease.
Text fragment wrote by Orlando Britto-Jinorio.
Images Yapci Ramos expo.
