Sandra Ramos
Acuarium, 2013.
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The recurring subject of Sandra Ramos s work is the artist’s painful experiences living in and parting with Cuba, and the country’s drastic upheavals of the early 1990s. The themes she explores include the severing of family ties and the loss of childhood or innocence; these autobiographical recollections become a metaphor for greater political, social, and economic concerns. Ramos’s works on paper, engravings, and installations are frequently strung together with a visual narrative in which the artist is cast as the main protagonist, embodied as a child-like explorer. Her drawings sometimes contain collaged materials culled from her day-to-day experiences, like maps and passport pages.(text Artsy net)
Alice in Vegas Land, 2014.
Internationally renowned Cuban artist, Sandra Ramos, came of age in an Era of economic crisis when Russian abandonment and a tightened United States embargo forced Cubans to realize that the utopia promised by the Revolution had fallen away. Classically trained, she is in the forefront of a new generation of artists who began to question their education and Cuban society.
Botello des Nudo, 2004.
References to classical literature and popular culture as well as deflating caricatures of Fidel, George Washington, Uncle Sam and the elite of the Soviet Pantheon appear in her commentary. Self portraits — either as la pionera, a school girl in the red uniform of the Revolution, or as Alice in Wonderland confronting the madness of adults in power, are also incorporated in her highly personal art.(text Noir Gallery)
Icarus.