Ritchy Ruiz Véliz

Ritchy Ruiz Véliz is a Venezuelan visual artist based in Barcelona, Spain. During his adolescence, his first steps in art were marked by the influence of graffiti and the concepts of postmodern painting. As a member of the Venezuelan diaspora, today composed of millions of compatriots, his artistic work is mainly nourished by concepts such as memory, identity and personal transformation, recurring themes among those who have been forced to emigrate due to the social and economic crisis in their country.

It is this fragmentation of memories that Ritchy captures in his works, using the patchwork technique, where he joins different textile remnants to offer a fragmented vision reminiscent of the mechanism of memory. In this way, texts, images and textile prints act as references to past times.