Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay
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Audition Tape 2003 Video | Live to Tell 2002 DVD Projection, installation view | |
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Live to Tell 2002 Video | Lyric 2003 Video installation | Lyric 2003 Video installation |
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Lyric Installation from Neverending Song of Love, Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, Canada, Summer 2004. |
Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay is a Montreal-born artist currently based in Toronto. Working primarily in video, performance, text and sound, Nemerofsky Ramsay takes expressions of emotion in pop music as a point of inquiry. His video installations, such as Lyric (2003) and Live to Tell (2002), exhibited in the Power Plant exhibition Auto Emotion, (including international artists Sophie Calle, Christian Jankowski, Nikki S. Lee, and Yohannes Wohnseifer, among others), are complex investigations of fiction and autobiography.
Nemerofsky Ramsay’s works, in which the artist enacts multiple roles, betray ambivalent messages mediated through pop music stereotypes. Nemerofsky Ramsay challenges viewers to interpret messages of love and loss appropriated from sources that range from Madonna to Elizabethan madrigal songwriter John Dowland.
Nemerofsky Ramsay's work has been screened in festivals and galleries across Canada, Europe and East Asia and has won prizes at the Hamburg Short Film Festival, the Kasseler Dokumentarfilm und Videofest and the Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (all in Germany), the Toronto Inside Out Film and Video Festival as well as First Prize at the Globalica Media Arts Biennale in Wroclaw, Poland. More about Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay