Irving Ramó is an artist who explores tragedy and conflict as fundamental forces in his work. He does not approach them as isolated events but as part of an endless loop where roles of victim and aggressor are constantly reversed. Within this cycle, bodies, images, and histories mutate, exposing how power operates through repetition and spectacle.

Central to his practice is the investigation of the relationship between training and entertainment. From military exercises disguised as games to contemporary systems of visual consumption, Ramó highlights how cultural mechanisms discipline while they entertain, producing subjects who participate in their own domination. This double bind—pleasure entangled with control—becomes the stage on which his images unfold.

In his images, different traditions and iconographies clash, generating symbolic frictions that echo both historical violence and its contemporary simulacra. His particular interest lies in the fragile friction between desire and violence, exposing how cycles of power persist, endlessly re-enacted in new forms.

A distinctive feature of his work is the incorporation of sharp or structural elements, which often pierce or extend beyond the pictorial surface, transforming it into a charged site of confrontation. These devices embody tension and paradox: pain intertwined with desire, fascination with discomfort. Through them, Ramó situates painting as a ritual arena where eroticism, conflict, and death are inseparably bound.

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