Letícia Ramos
1976, Santo Antônio da Patrulha - Brazil
Lives and works between Lisbon and São Paulo

Letícia Ramos has cultivated a specific interest in the procedures and evolution of photography and film techniques since the beginning of her career in the early 2000s. Her research-based projects explore the material, historical and conceptual aspects of image-making and how it shapes and interferes with our perception of reality. Like an empiricist scientist, for each project, Ramos develops all kinds of contraptions and image capturing machines that assist her in generating imagery and building narratives that go beyond what an existing camera or a given cinematographic lexicon can achieve. From experimental film emulsions to homemade pinhole cameras to microfilming and x-ray machines, Ramos’s prototypical devices and made-up methods are often the bridge between ancient and invented stories, scientific experiments, natural and sociopolitical events. More recently, she has devoted her research to environment and climate disasters, always drawing on speculative fabulation, mysticism, and science-fiction as points of both departure and arrival.

Her works were exhibited in spaces such as Tate Modern, Moreira Salles Institute, Itaú Cultural, Fundação Iberê Camargo, Berardo Collection Museum, CAPC Musée d’art contemporain (Bordeaux), Pivô Art Center. Her works are in collections such as Kadist,  Fundación Botin, Novo Musee de Mônaco, Museum of Modern Art de São Paulo , Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo and Itau Cultural.