Interview with Nelly Miriam Ramírez Ballón
Document date: 07 November 2014Identity Statement
1 genealogy; 126 photographs.
Hernández Nova, Leslie Nancy; Musa, Samir
Content and Structure
Location of the interview: Italy - Turin - The interviewer's home in Turin (Via San Massimo, n. 53).
Provenance of the intervieew: Peru - Ica
Name of the interviewer: Hernández Nova, Leslie Nancy
Nelly Miriam Ramírez Ballón, emigrated to Turin where she completed her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts. She made use of her Spanish paternal great-grandmother's art in order to narrate her experience of migration to Italy, including an engraving from the archaeological site of Machu Picchu.The production of the witness correspondes as following: 1 family genealogy; 1 individual photography-based project (66 digital photographs taken inside the Academy of Fine Arts of Turin; 60 digital photographs taken outside the Academy of Fine Arts).
Conditions of Access and Use
Spanish
Allied Materials
Notes
While carrying out the family genealogy, the artist was asked to describe her connection to her Spanish great-grandmother although it is not included in the final product. See the documentary entitled "I can't say I'm Peruvian, but a mixture" (Italy, 32 ', 2016, Giulia Cinisselli and Leslie Hernández Nova, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9Nc2dK7ljg). For access, see BABE-021.