Proto (or Delicious Garden)
A Lab Space, Amsterdam
2025
“Protos” (or “Delicious Garden”) is a series of sculptures derived from riding saddles that Jiménez collected on Dutch farms. Through cuts, reconfigurations, or simple gestures such as suspending the object or changing its orientation, its material, functional, and formal layers are revealed and transformed. In this way, the series of sculptures seeks to trigger associations beyond their original use and form, alluding to organic elements, objects, the body, the more-than-human, the vegetal, and even the industrial.
The objects, dialoguing with an ambivalent and suspended space and temporality, respond to concerns that surround Jiménez's practice. From experiments with the ready-made, the chain of associations that takes a simple gesture to a scale of multiplicity, aerodynamic and fluid objects, and the impossibility of categorizing reality within rigid, preconceived, and reductionist structures.
The title refers to the preliminary, the unfinished or unofficial, and on the other hand to Bosch's work "The Garden of Earthly Delights," which was a pillar in the conception of this body of work, since, both in this series and in the work that inspires it, strange forms, unnameable creatures, a multiplicity of beings, intentions, forces, spaces, and times converge, hinting at a similar delirium.
