Enrique Guadarrama
Pretty Landscape
25. September – 25. Oktober 2025
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What is our connection to the images that surround us? Images help shape the way we understand reality. Visual cultures configured over time impact the way we think, feel, and make decisions. The world we strive to build or the potential world we need to resist. Are we creating them with our smart prompts and commands, or it is us who are being shaped by their immediateness, our intellect constrained by their appeal, our perception slowly transformed behind the curtains?
Guadarrama’s work is at the crossroads of traditional printmaking and sculpture. He builds his own systems for image-making, configuring prints where process and information substitute representation, using randomness as a key to unveil and conjure prints. Rolls of dice determine the tones present in his aquatint prints, controlling the times a copperplate prepared with asphaltum will spend in the ferric acid.
– Rolls of dice determine as well how I structure my small printable blocks, similar toletterpress type, creating a unique matrix every time I print, explains the artist. Process substitutes representation. What we observe is configured by interactions between tone, shape and color, and they emerge through chance. By rolling dice or other random methods, any potential configuration may arise, a magical proposition with the potential to generate every possible image.
The exhibition at RAM reclaims the value and uniqueness of images through their materiality, reopens the door for us to their metaphysical power, through the ritual. We use our bodies in their activation, and access an unexpected dimension through mechanisms we can touch, feel, and activate.
Enrique Guadarrama Soliís (b. 1989, Mexico) is an Oslo-based artist who explores printmaking. He holds an MFA in Medium and Material Based Art from Oslo NationalAcademy of the Arts (KHiO) and a BA in Visual Arts from the Faculty of Arts and Design at UNAM in Mexico City. His work has been exhibited at a diverse range of international institutions, especially in Sweden, Norway and Mexico.
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