Ramirez Castillo, Osvaldo

Osvaldo Ramirez ­Castillo’s work depicts an allegorical narrative of historical, cultural, and personal experience through the use of drawing as his departure point of exploration. Drawing on his cultural tradition of storytelling, he employs personal iconography in allegorical form to explore El Salvador’s collective memory of Latin American myth, history, and North American popular culture. Ferias II explores the possibilities of narrative and the significance of drawing as a personal act of revision. Using the structural framework of an extreme carnival, this work delves into the violence visited on the body through the historical, cultural, and political layers that shape it in time.