Requiem for Mirrors and Tigers will be an exhibition of Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa’s performance works captured on moving images. Various media pieces will be displayed in a retrospective of the artist's works.

Requiem for Mirrors and Tigers is a series of documented video performances by Guatemalan artist Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa (2006). The series, produced over the past two years, feature a series of interrelated performances produced for the camera in different spaces. Commissioned by Corpus Network and headed by If I Can’t Dance Amsterdam, the series features the artist working solo and with an ensemble in an ethereal series of performances.

For Requiem, Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa developed a cycle of new performance works. Across the punctuated moments of the cycle, Ramírez-Figueroa used his body and direct action to perform a series of images related to the history of the Guatemalan Civil War. Approaching the Civil War from a personal position, he has softened these images through abstraction and humour, while attempting to use the intensity of the performance schedule to push beyond the immense force of the collective and inscribed memory of the war’s history. Beyond the live performances, the cycle of works form a collection of videos.

These videos will be featured at grunt gallery for Capture Photography Festival. The exhibit opens on February 22 and closes on April 21. The works will allow Vancouver audiences to see the newest work by this always enthralling artist.