Aldo Ramos
Aldo Ramos (born 1986, Mexico) lives and works in Amsterdam.
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, 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.
Aldo has been a member of the Weaving Realities collective since 2019, with which he organises performances and workshops by thinking-feeling with living Earth. He also co-founded Pluriversity Weavers, together with the Iku (Arhuacan) who are considered living seeds of hope in other possible worlds. Since their first encounter in Gonawindua, Colombia in 2017, Aldo has been working with these communities firmly in the defence of life in its diversity. resisting the oppression, massive destruction and ecocide by the current system. Aldo is using art as a platform to promote pluriversal rather than universal knowledge.
Aldo began his artistic research when he graduated from BEAR / ArtEZ Arnhem in 2016. Later, he continued with his MA thesis in the DAI 2018, and deepened his practice during the residency at Rijksacademie 2019-2021. His work has been in collaboration with some academic institutions in the Netherlands such as Maria Lugones Decolonial Summer School, hosted by Van Abbe Museum Eindhoven, Amsterdam University (UvA), Utrecht University, Wageningen University, Unitierra Manizales. His work has been shown in Beaufort Triennial Belgium, Bonn University, Kassel University Germany, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Arnhem Museum, Casco Art Institute Utrecht, Van Abbe Museum and Tarra Warra Museum Australia.
