Yapci Ramos
Bruma, 2014

The work of Yapci Ramos displays the raw honesty of documentary mixed with a focused sense of composition and color. Her oeuvre explores the elements of bodies – the physical and emotional bodies of people as well as the structural and historical bodies of architectural structures. In bioderivas, Ramos shifts this exploration of bodies to the native trees of the Canary Islands, the Pino Canario. The work is forceful in its subtle simplicity while remaining solid and unmoving in its weight. In Bruma, her soft, stark images of trees printed as panels on cotton paper throughout the space offer a distant memory of the imposing structure of fauna. This theme is pushed further in the slowly moving fog of the large format projection Pino Canario.

The ancient solitude of a lone tree is set in contrast to the slowly moving animated fog surrounding it. The fixity and silence of the imagery in Bruma and Pino Canario is directly juxtaposed against a slowly moving video counterpart provided by Observatory Movement I projected on the opposing wall. In this work, a painterly shot upward into the forest canopy humanizes the trees, providing the viewer with a sense of the immensity and weight of nature while also creating a position to perceive the trees with the freshness of an unfamiliar vantage. The moment captured by each work is deeply engaged with the site of production while at the same time their physical dimension creates a new site in the exhibition space, drawing on the tension between the viewer’s memory of similar locations and the limits of perception. Each of these works were developed in collaboration with the composer, performer, and sound artist Barbara Held.

Excerpt from essay written by Seth Cluett, artist, composer & critical writer.

Yapci Ramos
Pino Canario (Excerpt) 2014.
Digital video HD, 1’58’’, diptyque.

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Observatory (Excerpt), 2014.
Digital video HD, 5’12’’, diptyque.

Yapci Ramos
Bruma, 2014.
Digital photography. 6 digital images, each 98 × 39 in | 250 × 100 cm

Yapci Ramos
Bruma
Installation View at MUNA, Museo de Naturaleza y Arqueología, 2014.

Yapci Ramos
Bruma
Installation View at MUNA, Museo de Naturaleza y Arqueología, 2014.

Yapci Ramos
Bruma
Installation View at MUNA, Museo de Naturaleza y Arqueología, 2014.