Meet Viviana Ramos Di Tommaso

Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Viviana Ramos Di Tommaso. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Viviana, we’re thrilled to have you on our platform and we think there is so much folks can learn from you and your story. Something that matters deeply to us is living a life and leading a career filled with purpose and so let’s start by chatting about how you found your purpose.

As a visual artist working with organic materials and elements related to anatomy and dystopia, purpose does not arrive in a linear fashion—it reveals itself in layers, like the strata of skin or the sediments of a decomposing body.

My purpose emerged from the body: from its fragility, its transformation, its impermanence. In handling organic materials—wilted flower petals, animal bones, soil, dried fluids—I discovered I was building a bridge between the intimate and the collective, between biological memory and cultural history.

Each piece is an offering to the process of decomposition, to the beauty of what decays but does not disappear—reintroducing the organic into visual discourse and transforming bodies into fiction. I speculate on futures where human beings are redrawn in symbiosis with waste, bones, shells, and plants. I work with the organic to imagine a time when art not only represents life, but regenerates it.

Thanks for sharing that. So, before we get any further into our conversation, can you tell our readers a bit about yourself and what you’re working on?

I am a visual artist, researcher, and art educator.
I studied Visual Arts at the National School of Fine Arts “Prilidiano Pueyrredón” and currently live in Ramos Mejía, a town in the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, where I continue to develop my professional and artistic career.

I am part of several transdisciplinary research groups focused on Art, Science, Feminisms, and Gender Studies. I also belong to the artistic collective Las Domínguez de Ramos, together with Laura Domínguez.

My creative impulse stems from a deep need to connect with what the world discards: animal bones, food remnants, flowers, and more. I work with living matter—or matter in the process of decomposition—and I play with its permanence and temporality.

Each piece is an attempt to hold time, to listen to matter, and to let it speak—allowing it to express its disobedient beauty.

I am drawn to the limits of the body, to anatomical memory, and to the possibility of an art that not only represents but incorporates and enters into dialogue with biological processes.

Working with organic materials requires deep listening: to the cracking of bone, the drying of plants, the skin’s reaction to its environment. There is no artwork without time, without care, without repetition. Each gesture—cutting, fermenting, burying, rehydrating—is a form of dialogue with matter, a silent choreography that only the body understands.

If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?

I have been—and continue to be—shaped by several key influences:

Curiosity, as the inner drive that keeps me from remaining still, that pushes me to seek and investigate what captivates me and keeps me awake at night;

Patience, as the ability to work in rhythm with nature’s timing, without becoming desperate for immediate results;

and collaborative work, which expands my areas of knowledge. Working with others requires you to listen—and to listen to yourself. It demands respect for others and the willingness to share knowledge in order to reach common goals.

My advice to anyone beginning their path in the arts is this:

Do not isolate yourselves. Work in community—through collectives, research groups, or collaborations. It’s the best way to grow, both as artists and as human beings committed to the transformative power of artistic work.

What has been your biggest area of growth or improvement in the past 12 months?

My journey as a visual artist has always been deeply connected to collective practices.
I see collaboration not merely as a method, but as a central philosophy that sustains and expands my work. Collective work remains my primary area of growth. Participating in research groups has allowed me to enrich my general knowledge and delve deeper into specific subjects that align with my artistic and intellectual interests.

These shared spaces of inquiry and dialogue have opened up new ways of thinking and creating. Through them, I’ve learned to embrace complexity, to listen actively, and to value the intersections between disciplines—especially where art meets science, gender, and speculative futures of human and non-human life.

I believe that growing as an artist also means growing as a thinker and collaborator. That is why I continue to seek out communities of research and creation, where knowledge is built collectively and remains in constant transformation.

Contact Info:

• Website: www. vivianaramos.com.ar
• Instagram: @ramosditommasoarte
• Facebook: Viviana Ramos Di Tommaso
• Youtube: @Vivianaramos9

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Viviana Ramos Di Tommaso