Enrique Ramírez, In Search of Lost Wind

In Search of Lost Wind

Enrique Ramírez

Publisher
RM / Toluca Éditions
Year
2023
ISBN
9788419233660
Specifications
Hardcover with leporello binding
20 × 28 cm
226 pages
136 images
Texts by Ángeles Alonso Espinosa, Enrique Ramírez, Gilles A. Tiberghien, Raúl Zurita
Design by Olivier Andreotti
Bilingual Edition (English and Spanish)
Co-published with Toluca Éditions

Enrique Ramírez's work blends videos, photography, soundtracks, installations, and poetic narratives. He enjoys working with stories within stories, fiction that straddles different countries and time periods, the mirages arising from the gap between dream and reality.

He often uses images and sound to develop intricate plots that strike a subtle balance between poetry and politics. His imaginary world of interwoven themes is anchored by one obsessively recurring element at the root of all his meditations: the sea as a place for memory in perpetual motion. He projects narratives in which Chile's fate intersects with epic accounts of faraway travels, conquests, and shifting migration tides. His sea-inspired images tell a bewildering tale of a forever-elusive truth, as well as the undertow of history, always the same yet never identical.

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