The installation functions as a visual timeline generated of 60 small oil paintings on wood and three video animations that I created during the most critical period of the COVID 19 crisis. These pieces are a cathartic reaction to the manipulations and lies that characterized Donald Trump's Presidency. They humorously show the daily schizophrenia in the succession of controversial events and polarized conflicts during this period in the history of the United States that culminated in the terrible assault on the National Capitol in Washington, D.C.

 Trumpito Timeline. 

This installation establishes an ironic simile between the ancient “Sumerian  Disputations” written 5000 years ago as cuneiforms tablets and the numerous messages of hatred, intolerance and extremism in social network nowadays. 
The clay Laptops and cellphones work as palimpsest contrasting  language and  technology permanency and transcendence.


Sandra Ramos. Impossible Dialogues: Sumerian Disputations. 

This immersive participatory project signals how important it is for local communities to acquire the knowledge of their particular past in relation with a broader global history. The Installation focus on a critical dialogue with the western version of Universal History as a set of crucial events and influential personalities that occur in a rational, linear, consecutive and consistent progression, ignoring in many cases cultural, racial, ecological and gender factors. 
The first interaction of this project occurred in 2022 as part of the Invisible exhibition curated by Jill Kearny at ARTYARD. Frenchtown NJ. Students from Frenchtown Elementary K-8th and their teacher Tricia Hurley participated in it.

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