Enrique Ramirez: In search of the lost wind - "Water is at the heart of the work
by Enrique Ramírez: destructive, purifying, source of life and death,
healer, regenerator... The sea is the pre-symbolic whole from which
Ramirez projects his ontological vision as a metaphor expressing the
depth of being, its death and its perpetual regeneration.
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It is through the sea that Ramirez, as a navigator, connects people,
territories and history. Across the sea, the history of Chile is confronted
to his demons, and the great stories of travelers, conquests, flows
migratory, of immensity, of depth, of movement and of the call of the open sea
intersect, touching on the origins of being and the world, their relationship and their
sense. [...]
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Enrique Ramírez speaks of art, of the work of art, as an open window
on an elsewhere. A window built by questions about the world we
have created. For him, creation is the possibility of an elsewhere, of a language
who has not yet spoken, but who at the same time comes from the depths of the
life. Creating is an act of resistance to the world as it is, but also an act
of persistence and hope." \nÁngeles Alonso Espinosa
