Work by Sara Ramo, a young emerging Spanish/Brazilian artist, will showcase this Autumn at The Photographers’ Gallery. This will be Sara Ramo’s first exhibition in the UK. Strongly informed by performance art, Ramo sometimes appears in her own works. Using film, installations and photography, she is inspired by the innocence of childhood and magic realism to create parallel worlds beyond the restrictions of adult reason. Exhibition dates: 16 October 2009 – 17 January 2010. Location: 16 – 18 Ramillies St, W1.

The Photographers’ Gallery Press Release

Sara Ramo: The Everyday

Exhibition dates: 16 October 2009 – 17 January 2010
Press View: 10.00 – 13.00, 15 October 2009
Location: 16 – 18 Ramillies St, W1

Work by Sara Ramo, a young emerging Spanish/Brazilian artist, will showcase this Autumn at The Photographers’ Gallery. It will include a mixture of photography and moving image pieces and is based on her recent solo exhibition at PhotoEspaña 2009.

Ramo (Spain, b. 1975) explores notions of order and disorder by recording banal actions, that become surreal interventions in intimate, domestic settings. Strongly informed by performance art, Ramo sometimes appears in her own works. Using film, installations and photography, she is inspired by the innocence of childhood and magic realism to create parallel worlds beyond the restrictions of adult reason.

The Everyday will juxtapose Ramo’s still and moving image works, which often focus on sequence of actions or events. When people do not appear in the work, inanimate objects, such as screwed up pieces of paper, black balloons on strings and taped lines on the ground, are given a life of their own. They appear as characters in imaginary narratives constructed by the artist. Series of photographs show the same spaces before and after an intervention with objects moved in and out of visibility. Often the work is concerned with the thin line between order and chaos in everyday life.

This will be Sara Ramo’s first exhibition in the UK. Ramo works as a sculptor, photographer and film artist in Brazil, where she has lived and worked for many years. This year Ramo has participated at PhotoEspaña 2009 in Madrid and at the 2009 Venice Biennale.

This exhibition is curated by Camilla Brown, Senior Curator at The Photographers’ Gallery, based on the display curated by Sergio Mah for PhotoEspaña 2009. Sara Ramo: The Everyday reflects The Photographers’ Gallery’s commitment to introducing new audiences to emerging contemporary international lens-based art.

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