Join us at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) at Federation Square for a screening of works by Melbourne-based Mexican artist Diego Ramirez followed by a conversation between Ramirez and Anabelle Lacroix, ACCA’s Curator of Public Programs.
The screening will include My superstar (2015), aXolotl’s Happiness (2014) and Postcard eXotica (2016) and is presented in partnership with ACMI, as a parallel program to ACCA’s exhibition Dwelling Poetically: Mexico, a case study.
This event is presented in partnership the Australian Centre for the Moving Image as part of their ART+FILM program.
ARTIST BIO
Diego Ramirez is a Mexican-born, Melbourne-based multidisciplinary artist and writer, working primarily with video and pictures to develop installations for gallery contexts. His research based practise explores the legacies of colonialism in visual culture; the rhetoric of the image and concept of terror as a response to the ‘other’. Ramirez Often seeks to reconfigure vernacular archives and popular images that embody these themes.
Ramirez completed a Bachelor of Fine Art at RMIT University and an Honours Degree of Fine Art at Monash University. He has held solo exhibitions at MARS Gallery; The Substation; Seventh Gallery and the Perth Institute for Contemporary Art. In addition, his work has been included in group exhibitions at Art Central, Hong King; 17th Media Art Biennale WRO, Wroclaw; Torrance Art Museum, Los Angles and the Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei. In 2016, he was awarded a City of Melbourne Arts Grant for Postcard eXotica. Ramirez is currently represented by MARS Gallery, Melbourne.
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