Capítulo 0
2013
Paleosoico (2012)
Reference of the artist: Map taken out of Julio Verne's work The Adventures of Captain Hatteras (1861).
Reference of the artist: NASA's uniform trainning in the Atacama desert.
"This is a room for investigation. Here, there are no definitions of historical space and time. It is a geographical novel about a universe in which present, past and future intersect in science and fiction."
Letícia Ramos in a statement to PLATFORM:VB (October 2013)
Capítulo 0 (2013) | Letícia Ramos
Installation
Vento solar (2012)
Video | No sound, 16 : 9
Futuro do pretérito (2012)
Video | No sound, 16 : 9
Relevos (2013)
4 16mm photos printed on cotton paper, 10 × 15 cm
Paleosoico (2012)
Super-8 photogram printed on cotton paper, 35.5 × 20 cm
Vulcão lunar (2012)
Super-8 photogram printed on cotton paper, 35.5 × 20 cm
Paleolítico I (2012)
Polaroid | 10.5 × 8.5 cm
Paleolítico II (2012)
Polaroid printed on cotton paper, 60 × 54.5 cm
Testimony Letícia Ramos | 18th Festival
According to Ramos, the installation is an amalgamation of different times and situations throughout her career works, it is a kind of study room where audience act as investigators
Scene 1: Volcano in Chile provokes red rays in the sky (2011)
References of the social, cultural and political context during the conception of the piece
Scene 2: Nuclear Submarine breaking through the ice (2007)
Scene 3: Meteorite falls in Russia (2013)
Scene 4: A submarine raises a subaquatic North Pole flag
Scene 5: A submerged lake in Antarctic is accessed by a Russian depth-gauge
Scene 6: Curiosity's arrival on Mars
Scene 7: ESA tests instruments in the Atacama desert (2013)
Space Oddity (1972) | David Bowie
Reference in the process of creation for Capítulo 0
The basic studies of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, narratives from the first polar explorers, sci-fi movies and microfilming are among the artist's references.
Projeto Vostok by Letícia Barros.
Reflexões sobre uma ilha by Letícia Ramos
Projeto Bitácora by Letícia Ramos.
Letícia Ramo's website.