With his installation Nigro, Leonardo Ramos was the winner of the Prodigy Prize, given at Arte Cámara-ArtBO 2014. The artist will receive a scholarship-residence for the development of a project at FLORA Ars + Natura. Nigro is founded on the idea of the mutation of matter, based on the story The Adventures of Pinocchio (1880), by Carlo Collodi, where the death and life of a wooden puppet expresses the essence of mutating matter, a theme that has been prominent in Ramos' oeuvre. Ramos is interested in the figure of Pinocchio for the transformative processes he must undergo, which link him to characters such as Melampo, Actaeon's dog, and to the hero of the same name whose feet were burned. The artist posits a series of relationships where pine trees, pineapples, and the pineal gland form a central axis that emphasizes sameness, an adventure and confrontation with death. Here, bees and beehives play—as they did in Collodi's tale—an important repairing and radical transformation function: Pinocchio is transformed into a child when he finds the worker bees, Ramos reminds us. The members of the jury for the Prodigy Prize were José Roca, Carolina Ponce de León, and Santiago Rueda. Supported by the AP-ARTE Foundation, Leonardo Ramos has won several recognitions, among them one by the Santa Fe Gallery of Idartes and a residence at Cooperartes. Currently, his work is included in the exhibition Corpus Delicti, curated by Ricardo Arcos Palma in Mexico.