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“My practice is like an exercise of memory, so the objects bring me the opportunity to connect with that memory.” — Daniel Lind-Ramos
One of the breakout stars of this year’s Whitney Biennial (and certainly one of our favorites) is 66-year-old Afro-Puerto Rican artist Daniel Lind-Ramos (b. 1953, Loiza, PR). Using found materials scavenged around his coastal town in Puerto Rico – ranging from plants to religious icons to FEMA tarps – Lind-Ramos creates assemblages that “reassert the power of spirituality,” as described by Holland Cotter in the New York Times.
From the Whitney, here is the third of five studio visits produced by Sandenwolff Productions in the lead-up to the Biennial. Lind-Ramos speaks about the power of memory in the objects that he creates in his studio, and he takes us on a tour of friends and places in his community, where “we celebrate and we suffer together – and we resolve things together! Which is more important.”
