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Aldo Ramos (born 1986, Mexico) Artist and Artistic Researcher
lives and works in
Amsterdam, Netherlands.
aldoeramos@gmail.com
Aldo’s practice moves between art, social healing, and environmental care, guided by a commitment to protect life. After leaving law and relocating to the Netherlands in 2010, he began working alongside others who, from different histories, share a common struggle: imagining alternatives to oppressive systems.
He does not claim to create, but to listen. To receive and tend what already exists. His work is rooted in relationality, in the repair and protection of ancestral knowledge.
Art, for him, is an offering—an act of giving back to the Earth, inviting ways of being that move beyond consumption toward re-existence.
Soil as a weaving of memories
Knitted threads of memories contained in objects found while walking in Petemoro, Mexico and the swamp at Naardermeer, Netherlands.
Dimensions: 240x50 cm (consist of 4 knittings of cotton interwoven with mixed media)
Soils project exhibition at TarraWarra Museum of Art Healesville, Australia. 5 August – 12 November 2023
I have forgotten my connection to living territory, the soil beneath my feet, the memories it holds. In sacred mountains, I was taught that wisdom is to re-member with the soil. I began by walking ancestral paths, listening to the stories of my grandmother, and weaving memories into the land, like a spiral knot that expands outward.
Now in the Netherlands, I continue this practice, walking by lakes and listening to birds, water, and people. Through these acts of walking, listening, and weaving, I honor the living soil and the relationships it holds.
Spiraling Towards Pluritopia
Site-specific Installation
Solo exhibition at A Tale of A Tub, RotterdamPerformances in colaboración Weaving Realities, Yuchen Li, Valiana Aguilar and Wiedjai DihalApril-June 2022.
How can we think of ourselves in relation to the earth while cherish-
ing the different grounds everyone originates from? This is the leading thought within Aldo E. Ramos’ artistic practice. During the preparations for his exhibition at A Tale of a Tub, Ramos contacted people living in the neighbourhoods surrounding the exhibition place, sharing stories with them about migration, loss, and growing roots in unexpected places. Running up to his exhibition Spinning the Spindle Towards Pluritopia, Ramos set up a tent in the space and camped out there for a bit. He want- ed to get to know the history of the place, its environment, and the sto- ries of the people and communities it is surrounded by
Womb for rooted thought
· Willow branches and mud from the river, site-specific installation, 10 m (length) x 2,5 m (height) x 20 cm (width)
· Soils project in Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, Netherlands. · 8 June – 20 November 2024
One of the tasks of learning with the Iku people is to build a casa Marunsama, a living house.
The process of building requires walking the territory, finding the living materials, weaving a connection with life and the materials of the area we are inhabiting, and pay back with thoughts in reciprocity. This wall is a piece of what we learned from the IKU in how to create a space for us to weave knowledges rooted in the different soils, contexts and positionalities. In order to weave a Pluriversity, we spin our stories as threats, connecting our thoughts with the original thread of Mother Earth.
The Earthport
Installation (3m wide and 80cm deep) in the concrete floor exposes the layers of concrete, steel wire, polystyrene, plastic sheeting, and finally the sand below the concrete. It was refurbished with cotton weaving and diverse objects
Artist Studio at Rijksacademie, Amsterdam. 2020-2021
The Earthport confronts us with the absence of a place in the arts and in our lives
The absence of Earth The loss of Earth
In its material recalling of Earth
it listens to the ancestral knowledges of the Iku peoples in Abya Yala
It looks for a place to land
and becomes a place to meet
a place where we can recognize each other thinking through feeling from the pain of the other and begin to heal