Raised between the Mormon suburbs of Lehi, Utah, and the open deserts in Southern AZ, Alejandra Ramos reflects on the absurdities of the Christian faith and the influence of religious architecture on childhood memory. She uses video, sculpture, and drawings to engage seemingly innocent imagery with darker undertones of violence and betrayal, questioning the fictional innocence of childhood concocted by adults. Alejandra’s attachments to place are specific to the multiplicity of religious origins and heritages of her family spanning between Mexico, Guatemala, and the US. Attachments first experienced as a child are the foundation for building altered imaginations of rethinking relationships between borders, time, family, and home.

Ale Ramos is completing her MFA in Film and Video at the Art Institute of Chicago and has had the opportunity to perform at the Center for Performance Research for their Fall Movement Program and screen work in Mexico, London, Chicago, and Utah.