Biography
Ricardo studied at the Cátedra Arte de Conducta created and directed by Tania Bruguera. He has exhibited your work in several solo exhibitions, such as in Grenze – Arsenali Fotografici in Verona and in the Ludwig Foundation of Cuba in Havana. Among the exhibitions group, those made at KAOS 4th Festival of Contemporary Collage in Kranj, Le Lieu Centre en Art Actuel in Quebec, PHotoEspaña 2020 and 2019 in Madrid, FestFoto Brazil in Porto Alegre, ESMoA El Segundo Museum of Art in Los Angeles, Foto Museo 4 Caminos in México City, PAC Padiglione D Arte Contemporanea in Milano, ZAC Zisa Arti Contemporanee in Palermo, DOX Centre For Contemporary Art in Prague, 6th Contemporary Cuban Art Salon in Havana and others group shows in America, Europe and Cuba.
About my Work
When the memory turns to dust, for me as an artist it is a reflective process in which I combine empirical, psychological and critical things. I conceive the random gesture between the selection of a certain photographic document and the preconception in invoice of different stories, as a rescue practice where the apparently disposable, old or residual bear the weight of a memory that is presented to me as a pretext to recontextualize and resemantize the frozen story on photographic paper. I appropriate myself of a found testimony that covers the twenties to the end of the last century; I archive it, classify it and transmute it into a new metaphor.
I conscientiously manipulate, meticulously elaborate other realities, juxtaposed, assembled, mutilated, where I do not intend to disguise the traces of time on paper, nor the seams resulting from these photo collages. I consider myself as a restless prowler, a visual archaeologist who operates technically and discursively on elasticity of a record of reality; an original story that I reactivate through the conception of an aesthetic ontology that encompasses the ideological, the social, the political, the religious, the familiar…
This Series is a kind of built and resurrected testament in which meanings and mixtures of a culture such as the Cuban one, of mixed race and singular are distilled, which delights even today in nostalgia and sustenance of an astonishing and worn out ideal. I assemble landscapes, portraits, customs scenes or abstracts motifs to reformulate that individual/social memory; to enrich that heritage many times found within a Cuban family; and to offer a possible interstice that reminds us of who we are and how we see ourselves from the contemporary artistic debate.
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