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![Mother memorabilia - detail]( "Mother memorabilia - detail")
info"Mother memorabilia" is a collection of found objects. The floor findings ground me and my work. For me they are a source of inspiration, process and a work in itself, all at the same time. Power relations are subverted and I let the child lead. They all have attached memories and moments not known to the viewer, an audience can make them their own with their own associations.
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![Lost and Found Treasures you give me]( "Lost and Found Treasures you give me")
info"Lost and Found Treasures You Give Me" is a tabloid of digital photographic work. I tend to work on series. The series are an attempt to understand and create a full picture of a frugal moment, a more durable representation. Series make the viewer more active, not only contemplating something but finding relations, similarities, disparities and alienations inside the series itself. In this work I aim to transmit the urgency, repetition, intensity and overwhelming feelings mothering carries within. Chance, spontaneity, rhythmicity are present in the series.
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![Series Echoes of Co-existence]( "Series Echoes of Co-existence")
infoEchoes of Co-existence is a grid of 31 analogue mono prints. A piece of garment, a branch, a broken toy, a plastic trophy...I experimented with their uniqueness, softness, fragility, fragmented or torn qualities in an attempt to document the act of bonding between mother and child, like echoes of co-existence. I understand them as a creative embrace.
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![Echoes of Co-existence]( "Echoes of Co-existence")
infoInk on Rice paper
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![Echoes of Co-existence]( "Echoes of Co-existence")
infoInk on Rice paper
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![Echoes of Co-existence]( "Echoes of Co-existence")
infoInk on Rice paper
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![Growing Pains I]( "Growing Pains I")
infoInk on 100% cotton Hahnemühle paper
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![Growing Pains II]( "Growing Pains II")
infoInk on 100% cotton Hahnemühle paper
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![Growing Pains III]( "Growing Pains III")
infoInk on 100% cotton Hahnemühle paper
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![Untitled XVII]( "Untitled XVII")
infoFrom the series Lost and Found Treasures You Give Me
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![Untitled XI]( "Untitled XI")
infoFrom the series Lost and Found Treasures You Give Me
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![Untitled VII]( "Untitled VII")
infoFrom the series Lost and Found Treasures You Give Me
Websites
Personal Website.
www.carmengarciaramos.allyou.netGraduation Exam.
rietveldacademie.nl/en/page/1024108/carmen-garcia-ramosBest of Graduates 2021: Best of Graduates 2021 took place from 28 July till 21 August 2021. Best of Graduates is the annual exhibition that gives a platform to recently graduated talents from art academies in the Netherlands and introduces them to the world of galleries, collectors and curators
ronmandos.nl/exhibition/best-of-graduates-2021/DOGTime: This website exhibits works by graduates of the 2021 DOGTIME program. DOGTIME is the bachelor evening education of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam
graduation2021.dogtime.orgSocial media
Platform
Rietveld Society
Member of a professional association/artists’ association
Application Running for Haagse Kunstkring
Application in Progress for Pulchri
Curriculum vitae
Education
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2021 - 2021Analogue Deep Press print and Printing with natural dies Grafische Werkplaats, Den Haag
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2016 - 2021DOGtime - BA Fine Arts and Design Amsterdam, Gerrit Rietveld Academie diploma
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2015 - 2015Orientation Course De Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten in Den Haag
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2014 - 2015Orientation Year Amsterdam The Gerrit Rietveld Academie
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2010 - 2011MA Human Rights, Development and Social Justice International Institute of Social Studies
exhibitions
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2021Open Ateliers Den Haag Kunstgreep The Hague, Netherlands Open Ateliers Den Haag is a yearly event where artist open the doors of their studio to the public, showing work and discussing their process with the viewers. I was invited as a Guest Artist to exhibit my work at the exhibition space in the building that hosts the Kunstgreep Foundation. www.openateliersdenhaag.nl/discipline/carmen-garcia-ramos/ Group
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2021Best of Graduates 2021 Ron Mandos Gallery Amsterdam, Netherlands I was selected one of Best of Graduates 2021. Best of Graduates 2021 is the annual exhibition that gives a platform to recently graduated talents from art academies in the Netherlands and introduces them to the world of galleries, collectors and curators. ronmandos.nl/exhibition/best-of-graduates-2021/ Group
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2021Si.Si.Spex #10 Gerrit Rietveld Academy Amsterdam, Netherlands Si.Si.Spex is the Site-Sight Specific exhibition by DOGtime Gerrit Rietveld Academy in 2020 Group
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2020Si.Si.Spex #9 Gerrit Rietveld Academy Amsterdam, Netherlands Si.Si.Spex is the Site-Sight Specific exhibition by DOGtime Gerrit Rietveld Academy in 2019 Group
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2019Panopticon KunstKapel (Art Chapel) Amsterdam, Netherlands DOGtime Gerrit Rietveld Academy in 2018 Group
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2018Constrain by Space Tetterode Promenade Amsterdam, Netherlands DOGtime Gerrit Rietveld Academy in 2018 Group
International exchanges/Residencies
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2019ARIM The Hague, Netherlands ARIM is an online global residency program. Designed and founded as a project by conceptual artist Lenka Clayton, today a global network of artist mothers that create from the everyday of being a mother, not necessary making work about motherhood. www.artistresidencyinmotherhood.com
Sales/Works in collections
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2021Untitled I to VI Private Collection Amsterdam, Nederland Monoprints - 65x50 cm each, Ink on paper, from the series "Lost and Found Treasures you Give me". Sold from the studio of the artist.
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2021Echoes of Coexistence Private Collection Amsterdam, Nederland Monoprint - 30x40, ink on rice paper. Sold via Ron Mandos Gallery Amsterdam.
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2021Untitled III Private Collection Etching - 30x40, ink on Arches paper, sold from the studio of the artist.
Publications
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2021Mother and Master: The Maternal in the work of Louise Bourgeois, Alice Neel and Marlene Dumas Book Gerrit Rietveld Academie Carmen Garcia Ramos Amsterdam, Netherlands rietveldacademie.nl/en/media/inline/2021/6/29/carmen_garcia_ramos_thesis_carmen_garcia_ramos.pdf Open Source Thesis.
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2018Visual arts and creative direct action in Palestine: exploring artistic resistance and sumud on the separation wall Book International Institute of Social Studies Carmen Garcia Ramos The Hague, Netherlands thesis.eur.nl/pub/10746/ Open Source Thesis.
Awards and grants
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2021Best of Graduates 2021 Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam Amsterdam, Netherlands Best of Graduates is the annual exhibition that gives a platform to recently graduated talents from art academies in the Netherlands and introduces them to the world of galleries, collectors, and curators.
Secondary art-related activities
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2021 - 2021Application running to become funding member of an International Organisation Art Committee based in The Hague On-going