The purposes El Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo (EAC) include fostering the production of, and disseminating, works of art arising from the local or international environment. The Sara Ramo exhibition is part of EAC’s programme of activities staged in connection with Montevideo’s stint as Ibero-American Capital of Culture.
Sara Ramo was one of the first artists to be invited by EAC, where she presented the video ‘La banda de los siete’ (Band of Seven) immediately after showing it for the first time at the 2010 San Paulo Biennial. Her visit in 2011, during which the artist saw for herself the unusual building that houses EAC – a former panopticon prison built in the nineteenth century – led to the idea of repeating the experience but for longer in order to create a site-specific work in the areas of the former Miguelete prison that have not been given a new use.
On this occasion EAC, with the collaboration of AC/E through the latter’s mobility programme, is hosting the first Sara Ramo exhibition, thereby contributing to the consolidation of Montevideo as a prominent cultural focal point in tune with the most modern and innovative art, while promoting local knowledge of a Spanish artist whose international reputation is growing.