Manifesta purposely strives to keep its distance from what are often seen as the dominant centres of artistic production, instead seeking fresh and fertile terrain for the mapping of a new cultural topography.

Manifesta 15 Barcelona took place in Barcelona and 11 surrounding cities ot its metropolitan region.

Enrique Ramírez, CL

Enrique Ramírez was born in 1979 in Santiago de Chile. He lives and works between Paris, France and Santiago, Chile. Ramírez’s work combines video, photography, installations and poetic narratives. He appreciates stories within stories, fictions straddling countries and epochs as well as the mirages between dream and reality. He often uses image and sound to construct a profusion of intrigues and occupy the equilibrium between the poetic and the political. His imaginary worlds are attached to one obsessional element; namely, his thinking starts with the sea, a space for memory in perpetual movement and for narrative projections where the fate of Chile intersects with grand narratives of voyage, conquest and migratory flows. His liquid images speak of the sparkle of a truth in permanent flight and the backwash of history – always repeating and never the same.