Leticia Ramos

Her artistic research focuses on creating photographic apparatus adequate for capturing and reconstructing movement and presenting it through video, photography and installation. Her works have (...) been exhibited in art spaces such as the Tate Modern (London), the Pivô - Art and Research Center (Sao Paulo), Itaú Cultural (Sao Paulo), the São Paulo Cultural Center, Parque Lage (Rio de Janeiro), the Berardo Collection Museum, (Lisbon) the Tomie Ohtake Institute (Sao Paulo), and CAPC- Museum of Contemporary Art (Bordeaux). She was given important awards and research fellowship which the Marc Ferréz Award for developing the “Bitácora” project (2011/2012). As a result of this research, the artist published a book intitled “Cuaderno de Bitácora” and participated at The Artic Circle art residence (2011) aboard a sailboat which headed towards the North Pole. The photographic work produced during the expedition won the Brazil Photography Award - contemporary research (2012). In 2013 she participated in the program “Islan Session”, in the context of the the 9th Mercosul Biennial. That same year, she developed the project [VOSTOK] which consisted of a fictional trip to a prehistoric lake submerged in Antarctica. The project resulted in a virtual publication, a 35mm film, a book and an LP, as well a new performance which was presented during the Videobrasil Festival 19th edition in 2015. In 2014, she was awarded with the Moreira Salles Institute Photography Grant, and used it to develop a research called “MICROFILM”, which ended up winning the BES Photo international award (Portugal). She received the Video Art Prize, given by the Joaquim Nabuco Foundation (Brazil), for the development of a new project called GRÃO [GRAIN]. She was one of the PIPA Prize 2015 and 2016 artists finalists. In 2017 she got the Arts Grant from the Botín Foundation (Spain) for the development of the “Historia Universal de Los Terremotos” project. The project was exhibited in Centro de Arte de la Fundación Botín in Santander (Spain). In 2017 she participated in the exhibition “Hercule Florence - Le Nouveau Robinson” with the film “The Blue Night” on the Nouveau Musée National on Monaco and also the exhibition “Body to Body: The dispute of images, from photography to live broadcast” with the project “The Resistance of the Body” which opens the Moreira Salles Institute in Sao Paulo an Rio de Janeiro . In 2018 se showed in your comercial galleries at Brussels, Lisbon , Milan . Recently did your solo show at PIVO São Paulo. Your works belongs to the collections of MAM - Museum od Modern Art in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Itaú Culltural in Sao Paulo of Joaquim Nabuco Foundation, Moreira Salles Institut, of Vera Chaves Barcellos Foundation, of MAC - Museum of Contemporary Art in Rio Grande do Sul, Videobrasil Cultural Association ,Nouveau Musée National in Monaco and PInacoteca de São Paulo.