Keeping Things Whole
“Not Only Dogs Chase Their Own Tail”, Hervormde Kerk, Drempt, The Netherlands
2025
Over the past year, Jimenez has been researching around the idea of a poetic of air as a way to re-think the modes of perception, navigation, and becoming, in relation to his affective immediate environments. By reflecting on his experience of moving from Mexico to Europe, Jimenez takes air as a potential to re-negotiate the inherent ambivalence and flux in identity, the processes of adaptation and belonging, and its nature of troubling the rigidity of modern knowledge and perception. Thus, the project aims at inquiring a poetic of air as a way to challenge fact-based epistemologies through sensorial and ambiguous experiences by mirroring it to the relational potential of air; always being shaped in relation to the surrounding conditions.
Through gestures that often involve the whole body, Jiménez evokes the notion of aerodynamic flow, hinting at the boundless quality of air. The research began by asking "How to draw air?" and eventually transformed to "How to materialize the immaterial", giving a dynamic interplay between poetic and material approaches. The aluminum appears as a surface that reflects back the surrounding environment, however -unlike a mirror- it gives an opaque effect, suggesting the agency of the materiality and the motif of the drawings.
