Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa, Mimesis of Mimesis, performance, presented as part of If I Can’t Dance’s Finale for Edition VI – Event and Duration (2015 – 2016), Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, 24 November 2016. Photography: Florian Braakman.
Watercolor sketches of Life in his Mouth, Death Cradles her Arm (2016) by Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa
Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa, The Print of Sleep (2016), performance, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 30 April 2016, Photography: Frank Sperling.
Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa, The Print of Sleep (2016), performance, If I Can’t Dance Event and Duration Introduction, Cygnus Gymnasium, Amsterdam, 24 January 2016. Photography: Kyle Tryhorn.
Watercolor sketches of The Print of Sleep (2016) by Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa
Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa, Illusion of Matter (2015), live streamed performance, BMW Tate Live: Performance Room, Tate Modern, London, 3 December 2015.
Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa is one of four artists commissioned by If I Can’t Dance to produce a new work as part of Edition VI – Event and Duration (2015–2016). Using theatre, drawing, literature and sculpture, Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa’s work conjures live and sculptural representations that explore themes of loss, identity and displacement.
Across the duration of Edition VI, Ramírez-Figueroa will develop a cycle of new performances that attempt to exhaust his interest in the Guatemalan Civil War as the recurring subject of his work.
Ramírez-Figueroa’s new work is commissioned and produced as part of Corpus, network for performance practice. Corpus is Bulegoa z/b (Bilbao), CAC (Vilnius), KW (Berlin), If I Can’t Dance (Amsterdam), Playground (STUK & M, Leuven), and Tate Modern (London). Corpus is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
BOOK LAUNCH
5 April 2018, 7pmRequiem for Mirrors and Tigers
Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa, Frédérique Bergholtz, Susan Gibbgrunt gallery, VancouverEXHIBITION
22 February – 21 April 2018Requiem for Mirrors and Tigers
Naufus Ramírez-Figueroagrunt gallery, VancouverLAUNCH NEW PUBLICATION
April 2018Requiem for Mirrors and Tigers
Naufus Ramírez-FigueroaIf I Can't Dance, Amsterdam with Bom Dia Books, BerlinEXHIBITION
16 November – 19 November 2017Illusion of Matter, The Print of Sleep, Mimesis of Mimesis, and Linnæus in Tenebris
Naufus Ramírez-FigueroaPlayground, Leuvenexhibition and performance
18 May – 24 September 2017Linnæus in Tenebris
Naufus Ramírez-FigueroaCAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeauxperformance and screening
9 July – 13 July 2017Edition VI – Event and Duration: Brazilian Tour
Peter Pál Pelbart, Alejandra Riera, Ueinzz Theatre Company, Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa, Joke RobaardEspaço Itaú de Cinema Augusta, São Paulo, Casa do Povo, São Paulo and Fundaj – Arte Contemporânea, RecifePerformance
24 November 2016Mimesis of Mimesis
Naufus Ramírez-FigueroaRoyal Tropical Institute, AmsterdamFinale
24 November – 11 December 2016Edition VI – Event and Duration - Finale
Leonor Antunes, Erin Alexa Freedman and Lili Huston-Herterich, Alex Martinis Roe, Fred Moten and Wu Tsang, Peter Pál Pelbart and Ueinzz Theatre Company, Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa, Joke Robaard, and guests Jon Mikel Euba, Alejandra Riera, Michele RizzoVarious locations and venues in the east of Amsterdam CentrumPERFORMANCE
30 April 2016The Print of Sleep
Naufus Ramírez-FigueroaKW Institute for Contemporary Art, BerlinINTRODUCTORY EVENT
24 January 2016, 12 – 6.30pmEvent and Duration Introduction
Leonor Antunes, Erin Alexa Freedman and Lili Huston-Herterich, Alex Martinis Roe, Fred Moten and Wu Tsang, Peter Pál Pelbart, Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa, Joke Robaard, Vivian ZiherlCygnus Gymnasium, Vrolikstraat 8 (off the Wibautstraat), 1091 VG AmsterdamNEW EDITION ANNOUNCEMENT
2015–2016Edition VI – Event and Duration
Leonor Antunes, Erin Alexa Freedman and Lili Huston-Herterich, Alex Martinis Roe, Fred Moten and Wu Tsang, Peter Pál Pelbart, Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa, Joke Robaard, Vivian Ziherlperformance
3 December 2015, 8pm (GMT)Illusion of Matter
Naufus Ramírez-FigueroaBMW Tate Live: Performance Room, Tate Modern, London
