Manifestations
Osvaldo Ramírez

Using drawing as a personal act of review, Osvaldo Ramírez’s work represents an allegorical narration of his own historical and cultural experiences. In Manifestations he worked with the body as a symbol and a place where the collective and personal trauma originated in the memory of the experiences of loss and violence that marked El Salvador during the civil war in the 1980s, at which time the artist Together with his family, he emigrated to Canada. The artist worked on the possibilities of narrative, finding in myth and memory important instruments for the exploration of mythology and folklore
Latin Americans.

Using a personal lexicon of images that I have developed in my activity as an artist over the years results in a combination of drawing techniques that explore the problems of collective memory, cultural identity, and historical trauma.