Journeys

This artwork belongs to the “Resolutions” series. It is a word with different meanings that refers to intangible and tangible things. It is an ending and a decision for the future. It can be a way of seeing or a characteristic of an image. Legacy Russel defines a glitch in their book “Glitch Feminism - A Manifesto”, 2020, as “an accident triggering some form of caos”. This caos is aesthetically manifested by layers. Between handmade glitches we can see a lens of pictures that reflect the past year and the surpass of its resolutions.

At Luísa Ramires works, she creates “Nature Glitches” as the bottom layer, where the base image used is a drawing of a rock, a boulder or a mineral, from a place that inspires her. These geological elements are how every environment starts and they speak directly about its time. This concept of time is a constant at Luisa´s work and process, not only in inspiration, but with the creation of repeated rhythmic printing. The contrast between the time it takes to be created and gain its shape and just a small time to be replaced or destroyed. Therefore, she makes contrast with the our fast-paced technology based society. Combining the materiality of the rock with the intangibility of the digital, these “Nature glitches” are made.

Luísa Ramires frequently combine manual and digital techniques, such as screen printing on textiles with digital manipulation and drawing. Her work relates with space and environment, paying close attention to the different stories of locations and their relationships with the being, their rhythms and interactions. This is realised in large installations where people delve, wander and question how we occupy and live in our shared space.