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My childhood was spent drawing on the last pages of my notebooks during class. The school year was torture for me; the best days were summer vacations spent with family and loved ones.

I always wanted to create something; to draw or to paint, to the despair of my teachers and parents. I was facing the challenge of being an artist, something that was not seen as having proper potential for a future. So I searched for the love of life, having hope that there is always something good and beautiful everywhere, despite it sometimes being stifled.

Since my arrival in Quebec, my life has changed. I learned to “breathe,” to be less complex, and to take things as they come. I want to exist, to be myself. My personality emerges and it is painting that helps me. Painting is my refuge, my own personal island, my castle in the clouds.

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Beyan Ramsey takes a step back from the camera as he investigates meat and our experience with it. Through a series of sculptures that fuse together cast-moldings of pigs, cows and human body parts, “Soft Tissue” chronicles the transition from animal into meat. With life-like pieces molded together in a seamless continuity – but left headless, splayed and drained – the audience is forced to face Ramsey’s faceless emphasis on the materiality of flesh. Human and animal becomes one. Meat is seen as an object of both beauty and disgust, as well as a product of nature and civilization.

Rhéal Olivier Lanthier reflects, “Most of us are carnivores, but we try to keep a distance between ourselves and the industries that provide us with our daily dose of animal. In this new body of work, Bevan Ramsey pushes us towards a possible future of meat making — one that does not look seductive.”
Bevan Ramsay: Soft Tissue will be on view at Art Mûr in Montréal, Québec, Canada from March 9 – April 27, 2013.

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