ART+FILM Diego Ramirez: Towards the Umbral

This event included 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 at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) at Federation Square, Melbourne. The screening included My superstar (2015), aXolotl’s Happiness (2014) and Postcard eXotica (2016). This event is presented in partnership the Australian Centre for the Moving Image as part of their ART+FILM program, as a parallel program to ACCA’s exhibition Dwelling Poetically: Mexico, a case study. ABOUT DIEGO RAMIREZ: 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. Recorded on Monday 7 May 2018