Ramón Penhos

Ramon Penhos (1974).

Visual artist, lives and works in Mexico City.
His work makes a deep reflection and analysis of today's society, inspired by anecdotes and personal experiences, in each of his works we observe a personal catharsis. His work consists of digital collages, in which he makes use of both personal and borrowed photographs and paintings, and some others that he finds online. Since 2006 he has taken multiple photography courses at the Photographic Art Center under the teaching of great photographers such as Saul Serrano, Vida Yovanovich, Rogelio Cuellar, and Yolanda Andrade. Since 2015 he has presented his work in national group exhibitions such as Ryver Dance Festival (2020), Winter Echoes (SophArt Gallery, 2019) and Artificial Simulations (2018) in Mexico City and La Ciudad de las Ideas (2019) in Puebla. Among the international group exhibitions in which he has participated are Contemporary Mexican Photography (2019) and Mexican Photography (2020), both in Havana, Cuba.

All my work is based on my history and vision of life. My multiple paradigms, fears, and limitations, from frustration, uncertainty, and personal relationships, to politics and the erosion of the planet. I believe that each human experience requires a certain depth analysis, even if it does not match our desires, it is an intimate and necessary process to learn from what is happening around us and within us.

Photography and visual composition have been my first tools of expression. During my studies at art school, I knew that I had to give way to my questionings. For my work I take photographs released into the digital vacuum searching to give them my own identity, if I can't find the right image, I do it myself and integrate it to complete my point of view for each work.

My work with photo-collage comes from a profound feeling of being, so each work is a personal catharsis. My collages are the adoption of either images of mine, anonymous, gifted, public, paintings, and appropriations. From photographs roaming the net from different destinations and lenses from powerful cameras or terrible optics, arranged or integrated into a piece in which context is precise.