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© 2011 Cecilia Ramón
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1965, Cecilia Ramón grew up with the experience of the violence and terror of the 1976-1983 Argentine Dictatorship. She studied in Buenos Aires with Maria Luisa Manasero and Anselmo Piccoli. She practices painting, sculpture and installation work. She has been living and working in Duluth,MN since 1997.
Her work is an inquiry into the nature of the mind, perception, cognition and the root of emotion, like fear and anger, but also joy and equanimity. She is interested in how power affects individuals, society and its relationship to nature. In her practice there is an ongoing meditation on loss, memory and displacement.
She explores primarily the language of two materials: wood and paper. She is increasingly searching for an austerity of form and a frugality of means. Wood, as a metaphor of the human body, fragile and strong, subject to gravity and change, allows her to explore visually the body/mind continuum.