Ramona Ramlochand
(Quebec, Canada)

The work of Ramona Ramlochand is concerned with questions of identity and place, and specifically, what the artist calls the “diasporic imagination” as expressed in digital imagery. Art historian Alice Ming Wai Jim explains that Ramlochand’s work questions “ways in which place – both real and imagined – is perceived, as mega-corporations join forces with new media technologies to advance the increasing digitization of the world … Inspired by her travels in Africa and Southeast Asia, her digital collages often juxtapose images from so-called Third World countries with those from industrialized countries. These collages enable her to create new geographical locations … rooted in ‘real’ experience but remembered as imagined moments.”
Optica, Un centre d’art contemporain
5445 avenue de Gaspé, espace 106
514 874 1666
Ramona Ramlochand. White Desert
September 10, 2005 – October 15, 2005
Tuesday to Saturday 12:00-5:00pm
Opening Saturday September 10, 2005 at 2:30pm, the artist will be present