Room 002.20
Sara Ramo: lindalocaviejabruja

Sara Ramo’s point of departure is the appropriation of images, scenes and spaces from daily life, which she reconfigures to extract them from their original context and integrate them into her works. In these pieces, she alludes to domestic, daily and autobiographical spheres and popular theatre.

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Sara Ramo’s point of departure is the appropriation of images, scenes and spaces from daily life, which she reconfigures to extract them from their original context and integrate them into her works. In these pieces, she alludes to domestic, daily and autobiographical spheres and popular theatre. The Mihas e suas (Mine and Yours) dolls refer at once to playfulness and to that which is concealed, which is enigma. The organicity stemming from bodies patched up with waste materials bestows an animated quality on the textiles employed. 

Furthermore, the video work Una y otra vez (Time and Time Again) recreates a puppet show with glove puppets, a classical theatre based on a storyline in which marginal characters, often female, are hit repeatedly. Violence which, in the outcome of the play, normally turns against those dominating, in the form of a moral, and therefore symbolises the fight against oppression. Ramo, through an unsettling soundtrack and dramaturgy, only allows the scene to be viewed partially, packing it with symbology that reflects women’s constrictions.

The artist links these works to the implications and difficulties of her experience of what being a woman entails, showing the traditional link between women and the magical potential, and historical persecution, possessed by healers and witches, or the subversive capacity of disobedient wives opposite the established social mandate.

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