Open Studio. Natalia Ramos
Wednesday, June 24, 2026
6:30pm - 9:00pm
Via Niccolini, 35a
20154, Milan
free admission
6:30pm - 9:00pm
Via Niccolini, 35a
20154, Milan
free admission
In the final weeks of her residency, mexican artist Natalia Ramos welcomes the Milan public into the ceramics studio for an encounter with her artistic practice — a kind of offering to the in-between, and an invitation to be and rest with uncertainty without needing to solve it.
During her residency at Fondazione Officine Saffi, Natalia Ramos has developed a body of work that subverts familiar objects — folded garments, boxes, domestic surfaces — translating them into ceramic. Working primarily with thin slabs, the pieces explore what happens when a material associated with permanence behaves like something fragile, temporary, or held: a shirt mid-fold, a surface that bends without breaking.Together, the works form a loose system of gestures and enclosures. The murals operate as ceramic collages — relief surfaces built and carved, somewhere between drawing and architecture. The boxes propose a different kind of space: closer to a niche than a container.The open studio invites visitors into a practice still in motion — where some works remain unresolved, and resolution itself is not the point. What persists across all of them is a quality of intimacy: objects that have been held, folded, or carefully enclosed.
Natalia Ramos (b.1993, Guadalajara, Mexico) is a visual artist based in Mexico City. Her practice centers on the fragment as a site of meaning with pieces that do not seek unity but exist in tension: partial, suspended, suggestive. Working primarily with high-fire ceramics, metal, and textiles, she creates inner landscapes that act as affective archives; translations of the intimate that resist full disclosure. Through modularity and assemblages, Ramos constructs an emotional syntax of dismemberment and proximity. Her practice inhabits the in-between: the moment before things come together or fall apart. In her installations, materials enact small negotiations of holding, leaning, opening spaces that remain unsettled.
Natalia's work has been presented in solo exhibitions at Guadalajara90210 and momoroom, and has participated in group exhibitions at El Recinto, naranjo141, JO–HS, Guadalajara90210, Forma and Salón Cosa amongst others. In the past year, she developed a collaborative project with Museo Jumex as part of the Museos en Común program and developed three large-scale public sculptures for children at Museo JAPI – Jalisco Paseo Interactivo in Guadalajara. She also works as an illustrator for The New York Times, The New Yorker, Esther Perel and The School of Life. She holds a BA in Communication and Cinematography from Tecnológico de Monterrey and completed a postgraduate program in Art Direction at Elisava, Barcelona.
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During her residency at Fondazione Officine Saffi, Natalia Ramos has developed a body of work that subverts familiar objects — folded garments, boxes, domestic surfaces — translating them into ceramic. Working primarily with thin slabs, the pieces explore what happens when a material associated with permanence behaves like something fragile, temporary, or held: a shirt mid-fold, a surface that bends without breaking.Together, the works form a loose system of gestures and enclosures. The murals operate as ceramic collages — relief surfaces built and carved, somewhere between drawing and architecture. The boxes propose a different kind of space: closer to a niche than a container.The open studio invites visitors into a practice still in motion — where some works remain unresolved, and resolution itself is not the point. What persists across all of them is a quality of intimacy: objects that have been held, folded, or carefully enclosed.
Natalia Ramos (b.1993, Guadalajara, Mexico) is a visual artist based in Mexico City. Her practice centers on the fragment as a site of meaning with pieces that do not seek unity but exist in tension: partial, suspended, suggestive. Working primarily with high-fire ceramics, metal, and textiles, she creates inner landscapes that act as affective archives; translations of the intimate that resist full disclosure. Through modularity and assemblages, Ramos constructs an emotional syntax of dismemberment and proximity. Her practice inhabits the in-between: the moment before things come together or fall apart. In her installations, materials enact small negotiations of holding, leaning, opening spaces that remain unsettled.
Natalia's work has been presented in solo exhibitions at Guadalajara90210 and momoroom, and has participated in group exhibitions at El Recinto, naranjo141, JO–HS, Guadalajara90210, Forma and Salón Cosa amongst others. In the past year, she developed a collaborative project with Museo Jumex as part of the Museos en Común program and developed three large-scale public sculptures for children at Museo JAPI – Jalisco Paseo Interactivo in Guadalajara. She also works as an illustrator for The New York Times, The New Yorker, Esther Perel and The School of Life. She holds a BA in Communication and Cinematography from Tecnológico de Monterrey and completed a postgraduate program in Art Direction at Elisava, Barcelona.
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