Yapci Ramos

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Yapci Ramos (San Cristobal de La Laguna, Tenerife, 1977) is a Canarian visual artist living and working between Barcelona, Tenerife and New York. Her work challenges the border of comfort between the body and society while engaging the intricate workings of both internal psychology and external expressions of identity.

Biography

Born on the island of Tenerife in 1977, Yapci Ramos lives and works between Barcelona, Tenerife and New York. She studied photography at Central Saint Martin’s College of Arts & Design London (CSM). She furthered her education by receiving her Master of Creative Documentary from the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, where her final project -Un cuerno, cinco pipas y dos objetos más- was tutored by Luciano Rigolini. She studied with film directors such as Frederick Wiseman and Viktor Aleksandrovich Kossakovsky.

After a career in art of over twenty years, she has participated in a large number of international biennials of contemporary art in the Caribbean, Latin America and Africa; museums and galleries in the United States, Honduras, Angola, Aruba, etc. In 2018, she started an individual exhibition trilogy in the Canary Islands: Show Me at TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, which was the first show of the trilogy that concluded in 2019 with the projects Know Us, in CAAM Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, and Welcome Her, in Casa África.

She has also worked in different curatorial projects in many institutions and museums. Among others, the project Like Walking on Mars (2018) in Museo de la Naturaleza y el Hombre and the Museo de la Ciencia y el Cosmos; Senses of Place, a project framed within the festival LOOP Barcelona 2015; or Bioderivas (2013) at the Museo de la Naturaleza y el Hombre.

In 2009, she co-founded the Tenerife Design Festival, an international project fusing current design trends with the identity features of the island of Tenerife. She has been director of the festival for five editions. During that period, she worked with designers such as Campana Brothers, Stephen Burks Man Made or El Último Grito.

Exhibitions

Yapci Ramos has been selected as part of the artist-in-residence program The Watermill Center 2020. In June 2018, she was a resident artist at The Fountainhead Residency, Miami. She has participated in a large number of international biennials of contemporary art in the Caribbean, Latin America and Africa: 8ème Rencontres Africaines de la Photographie, Bamako; II Luanda Triennial; Primer Encuentro Bienal de Arte Contemporáneo del Caribe, Aruba; 7th Biennial of Sao Tome and Principe; V Biennial of Honduras, Tegucigalpa; IX Biennial of Visual Arts of the Central American Isthmus - BAVIC, Guatemala. Her work has also been shown in museums, art centers, galleries, festivals and institutions in numerous countries, including the Center for Contemporary Culture - CCCB, Barcelona; TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Santa Cruz de Tenerife; CAAM Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria; Casa África, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria; Na Solyanke Gallery, Moscow; Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, New York; Centro Cultural de España CCET in Tegucigalpa; Musée d'Histoire la Medecine, Paris; Galerie Magda Danysz, Paris; EAC Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo, Montevideo; Mario Mauroner Gallery, Vienna.

Work

“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” - Seth Cluett

"It is above all a quest. This desperate attempt to collect scattered pieces, emotions, anger, fears, discoveries, disillusion and happiness, that make up the biography of a contemporary being” - Simon Njami

“The artist’s work has evolved from a colonial past and from the near-and-far relationships with Africa in her quest for human re-encounters” - Cecile Bourne Farrell

“Ramos places herself front and center in conversations around female empowerment—as a woman, in control of her body, her voice, and her own destiny” - Justine Ludwig

Selected works:

• Freedom (2019): It is a duo-channel sound installation. A collision between the recorded song of a real bird (Tegucigalpa, Honduras) and the artist’s whistle (song alluding to El Silbo Gomero), a complex sequence of bird-like-whistle-sounds. Yet one of Freedom’s birds is ‘free’ while the other is not.

• Identity (2019): Series of lenticular photographs. The artist’s face intermingles with different members of her family, a game of reflections where sometimes she is her, sometimes she is her mother, her uncle or her father. Establishing links between identity and the generational inheritance, the geographical context and the socio-cultural environment.

• I Don’t Mind II (2018): Six-channel sound video installation. Each one of the screens shows the face of a different person, looking directly to the camera. The project undermines the onslaught between the private and the public, proposing the return to a body-subject that produces itself and connects with its own jouissance.

• Red-Hot (2018): Sound video installation. GO, NOW, WHY, CALM, STOP, DO, WITH, YES, US, TRUE, PATH, COME, 39, HOME, TIME, BE, YOU - words that the artist writes, gravels and erases, during two years on the wall of her bathroom with her menstrual fluid: decisions and resignations. This action conjures ancient rituals and religions centered on the Canaries’ aboriginal worship of the mother goddess, the Earth and the magical power of blood.

• Perras (2014): Photographic series of abandoned and battered dogs that roam the neighborhoods of Aruba. Metaphorically, dogs illustrate the oldest profession in the world, putting women in the center of the discourse.

Selected solo exhibitions

• Welcome Her, Casa África, ES
• Know Us, CAAM Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, ES
• Show Me, Tenerife Espacio de las Artes (TEA), ES
• Red-Hot, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, New York, US
• Perras y Putas, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, New York, US
• Un respiro en el camino. Centro de Arte La Regenta, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, ES
• La Noche del Trópico. CCET Centro Cultural de España en Tegucigalpa, HN

Selected articles

• El País – Ángeles Jurado
• Studio International – Lilly Wei
• Cools – Elyssa Goodman
• Observer – Margaret Carrigan
• Wall Street International Magazine – Daniel Gauss
• Paper Magazine – Kurt Mcvey
• El País – Arnau Horta
• El Heraldo – Samaí Torres
• Forbes – Brienne Walsh

Publications

• Britto Jinorio, O., González, G., Segura Clavell, J., Peralta, Y., Bourne Farrell, C., Cohen, D., Njami, S., Polla, p., Prieto, I. (2019) Yapci Ramos: Show me. Know us. Welcome her. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, CAAM. ISBN 978-84-17434-10-5 Search this book on ..
• Britto Jinorio, O., Jurado Quintana, Á., Williamson, S., Atangana, E., Njami, S. (2017) El iris de Lucy: artistas africanas contemporáneas. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, CAAM. ISBN 978-84-92579-88-4 Search this book on ..
• Britto Jinorio, O., Déniz Sosa, C., Rodríguez Quintana, M.C., Sadarangani, G., Barro, D., García, A. (2017) +F : Artistas post-conceptuales en Canarias, 2000 – 2017. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, CAAM. ISBN 978-84-92579-92-1 Search this book on ..
• Noceda Fernández, J.M. (ed.) (2014) Prome Encuentro Bienal Arte Contemporaneo di Caribe 2011-2012. Aruba: LM Publishers. ISBN 978-94-60222-67-2 Search this book on ..

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