Mirrors
CDMX - Arnhem, NL
2024-2025
The Mirror pieces, which operate in an intermediary between the virtual and the real, as a new space and its very absence, and between the pictorial and the sculptural, respond to the experience of living in proximity to water infrastructures - a fundamental characteristic of the urban, sociopolitical, and spatiotemporal experience in the Netherlands. As in that country, these infrastructures, containing urban fluids and flows, create and organize space in planned, determined, and logical ways. By creating a route through space with these works, Jimenez seeks to question these logics and propose a reorganization where the ambivalence of the route provokes wandering and, therefore, a possibility of moving through space in an undetermined and free way. The combination of water and oil suggests the Mirrors as vessels of incompatibility sharing common constrains, resonating with the experience of being a foreigner and negotiating compatibility, mixture, adaptability and agency.
