Performance Appraisal is an ongoing series that revises Ramírez's body of work prior 2024, through administrative language, instruments or processes instigated in conscientious gallery management. The framework of a 'performance appraisal' implies that Ramírez' ouvre is being measured, reviewed and valorised.
For Performance Appraisal 1, the staff at West Space covered the floor of their office for an exhibition period with a large vinyl from an old banner work, which deteriorated with every employee's movement during working hours. Encouraging multiple readings of the work, ranging from a commentary on the size of West Space's office to the increasingly public role that administrators play in the art world. It also makes a humorous remark on the value of the work, which is being used as a deteriorating carpet.
Special thanks to West Space's Director Joanna Kitto and Curator Sebastian Henry Jones.
