Sara Ramo

In Sara Ramo’s work, the objects that surround us are displaced from their usual contexts and recomposed into installations, sculptures or assemblages. The layers of time and the symbolic and social dimensions that permeate things are revealed as they are shifted to a new region of meaning. The artist also produces paintings where vibrant, paint-laden surfaces recall both microscopic beings and vast landscapes. Her pictorial approach derives from experiments with collage, reinventing materials and processes through juxtaposition and fragmentation. Her works remove perception from the dormancy imposed by habit, reactivating the hidden potential of the inanimate and the invisible. 

Among her recent solo exhibitions are Los trabajos o el juego de la vida, Travesia Cuatro, Madrid, Spain (2022); Cartas sobre a mesa, MAZ – Museu de Arte de Zapopan, Zapopan, Mexico (2020) and lindaviejalocabruja, Museu Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain (2019). Ramo also participated in the group shows Intimidades Radicais, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil (2022); Arte y Arquitectura; un diálogo, Centro Botín, Santander, Spain (2020); Véxoa: nós sabemos, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil  (2020) e a 13a Bienal de La Havana, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam, Havana, Cuba (2019)

The artist has works in important public collections, such as Casa di Risparmio di Modena, Modena, Italy; Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, Miami, USA; MAM – Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Coleção Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil; Coleção Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil; FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France; Fundación Botín, Madrid, Spain; Instituto Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brazil; Margulies Collection, Miami, USA; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; Museu de Arte da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Brazil e Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.