Tierra Aislada
Educative Program -
Rufino Tamayo Museum Of Contemporary Art
2018
Parallel to Atelier Constellations Collective
From 2017 to 2018, Alejandro Jiménez was part of a collective named Atelier Constelaciones, an iterative platform runned by artist Sebastián Romo, that merged pedagogy and interdiscilplinary artisitic practices.
The one-year residency at Museo Rufino Tamayo of Contemporary Art in Mexico City culminated with a series of collaborative and individual projects from all participants of the collective, which were developed during an investigation trip around the Baja California penninsula in northern Mexico. The projects were finally exhibited in a group show titled Atrapando el Fuego (Catching the Fire).
Jiménez developed Tierra Aislada (Isolated Land), a research project that presented the region of La Baja as an alienated territory from the rest of the country. Taking this alienation phenomenon in this region was a way to dive into the politics, the social tissues, the violence, history, economic conditions and the cultural multiplicities that constitute La Baja region.
Through a process of collecting found objects, visual archive, stories of inhabitants gathered by conversations with owners of lands, rancheros, sailsmen, business owners, fishermen, hostel owners, train conducters, taxists, and passerbys, among others, Alejandro decided to make a nuanced framing that could help disseminating the conditions of this land. An x-ray of the territory. A process of complexification and above all, dig into the political, social, and cultural conditions that are often overlooked or even ignored in Baja California.
