(Alter-)
BA Fine Arts Graduation exhibition.
ArtEZ Arnhem, The Netherlands
2025
Conceived as a spatiotemporal mind map of Jiménez’s ongoing research, (Alter-) inquiries on agency and movement, drawn from the notion of air as a resource to explore and mirror his personal experience with material and sociopolitical reflection. Influenced by poet and philosopher Edouard Glissant’s notion of opacity and errantry, and Donna Haraway’s defense on Situated Knowledges, Jiménez challenges the presumed solidity of knowledge and perception by allowing to maintain things hidden, unresolved, and unstable.
(Alter-) combines sculpture, found objects, sound, poetry, and imagery, to convey a sense of subtle delirium, a psychogeography that confronts presence with memory, ambiguity with reality, and air with solidity: an in-between situation with different agencies in negotiation. Subtle material gestures are put in conversation with his latest series “Luchts” - sculptures that suggest aerodynamic bodies made with diverse materials and methods, including wind, that Jiménez developed over the past year in different contexts.
Informed by Bosch’s De Tuin der Lusten and Loie Fuller’s Serpentine Dance, this airy state of affairs suggests the possibility of new, different, and other forms of producing (maybe only preliminary) conclusions, notions, and approximations to the appearance of space and the elements that activate it. Jiménez invites us to navigate this tacit situation, letting go the need for naming, grasping or concrete definitions as a form of rehearsal, resonating with the negotiations through (un)familiarity and (un)certainty he has made through his movements and changes of place.
