Aldo
Esparza
Ramos

Aldo Ramos (born 1986, Mexico) lives and works in Amsterdam, Netherlands
Determined to strengthen the protection of life, his work
has emerged in the interdisciplinary space of art, social practice and environmentalism. After leaving behind his life and profession as a lawyer and relocating to the Netherlands in 2010, Aldo has established a connection through artistic practice with other people who share similar experiences, with different stories but the same struggle. People who aspire to construct alternatives to the current oppressive system.

His practice is directed towards social healing; as reconstitution, reparation and protection of ancestral knowledges. He doesn’t see himself as an innovator, or creator but a guardian who receives and expresses an order that already exists. In his practice relationality is more important than the work itself.

His practice is a service, an action of offering, a giving back to Earth that is shaped by the experience of listening. Art becomes a platform that encourages relational ways of being with the Earth as re-existence overcoming consumption.

Co-learning Group

In the year of 2024 we organized a series of ongoing encounters for interested people in which we introduced background stories on the worldview of the Arhuaco as well as their encounters with modern civilization. 

We aspire to continue to organize such co-learning spaces. We participate in these events not only as knowledge sharers, but also as learners. We acknowledge we are dealing with increasingly complex questions of hwo to live an ethical live as we live in a consumer based society that thrives ont he very extractivism and destruction of Life  that we aim to undo. 

    Ywikunarin

Soil as a weaving of memories

I have forgotten who I am with a living territory, I can’t see that I am standing on living soil. When I was in the sacred mountains I was told that the soil is made of memories, and wisdom is to re-member with the soil. Perhaps, I could remember by walking the paths of my ancestors.

to walk those paths could bring memories from the soil, to think from there is to weave with a living soil. As I was told this weaving begins like you would do with a Tutu, the first step is a knot, just like in the belly button, and from there, it knits outwards in a spiral shape.

As I understood this invitation I began by visiting my childhood land, where I listened to my grandma’s memories by knitting stories as she

does with her hand. But also to remember with the memories of the soil by walking the paths in the mountains of Petemoro.

Once I have the memory of my origins Then I come back to the Netherlands where I live now, I look for the water bodies around, nearby is the Naardermeer a lake that I visit often. I walk around and listen to the birds, the stories, and the people there.

These four knittings became the solidification of these re

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