Yapci Ramos
Identity, 2019

Why are we the way we are? What weight does family have over an individual? Is there such a thing as a subconscious trans-generational
legacy?

Artist Yapci Ramos sets out on a journey into her family album to try to unravel the keys to her own identity, but also the links between that identity and a legacy inherited from previous generations, from her geographic context and her sociocultural environment.With that purpose in mind, she has made a selection of family photos which she compares, imitates and confronts in a process that, in turn, becomes a path towards selfknowledge. However, instead of answers, what she comes across are encounters and dialogues with the other. What resonates inside her are echoes from the past, those fragments of others which the artist attempts to reveal for herself in order to disentangle a narrative in which past and present are intertwined. Accordingly, Ramos’s work lays bare the complexity that underlies the configuration of one’s own identity, in this case in relation with the analogy of the family.

Excerpt from essay written by Yolanda Peralta, art historian, curator & researcher.

Yapci Ramos uses the technique of lenticular printing to create prints that show two different images by changing the angle from which they are viewed, shifting identities.

Yapci Ramos
Installation view of lenticular photograph.
Tío Manolito, 1977/2018.

Yapci Ramos
Titi, 1981-2019.
Installation View of lenticular photograph.

Yapci Ramos
Tío Manolito, 1977/2018.
Lenticular photograph, 59 × 47 in | 150 × 120 cm

“I would remove the hair from my beard and leave it in the rooms so that people would know that the Canary was there” – 
Manolito Ramos

Yapci Ramos
Tío Padre, 1977/2018.
Lenticular photograph, 59 × 47 in | 150 × 120 cm

“Single and student. We weren’t married yet, it was a day out” – 
Mario Ramos

Yapci Ramos
Tía Cayaya, 1977/2018.
Lenticular photograph, 59 × 47 in | 150 × 120 cm

“With all that black, in mourning” – 
Clara Ramos

Yapci Ramos
Titi, 1981-2019.
Lenticular photography, 39 × 31.5 in | 100 × 80 cm

“Tests with my photography teacher” – Ana Ramos

Yapci Ramos
Tía Clara, 1977/2018.
Lenticular photograph, 59 × 47 in | 150 × 120 cm

“And I was very bad at make-up and she came and plucked me, it seemed that they’d never come out” – Clara Ramos

Yapci Ramos
Tía Argelia, 1977/2018.
Lenticular photograph, 59 × 47 in | 150 × 120 cm

“He told her to take a picture to put in his wallet” – Argelia Ramos

Yapci Ramos
Identity.
Installation at CAAM Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, 2019

Yapci Ramos
Mamá, 1984/2019
Lenticular photograph, 59 × 47 in | 150 × 120 cm

“Hats look great on Mami, I tell her, but she ignores me” Mario Ramos

Yapci Ramos
Abuelo, 1928/2019
Lenticular photography, 39 × 31.5 in | 100 × 80 cm.

_“He was a crush like Manolito.” – Clara Ramos

Yapci Ramos
Tía Bisabuela, 2018
Lenticular photograph, 59 × 47 in | 150 × 120 cm

“She was pregnant, don’t you see her sitting?
“ – Clara Ramos

Yapci Ramos
Identity.
Installation at CAAM Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, 2019