Jesus Jimenez

Jesus Jimenez: ‘Co-Dependency’, 2007.

Working in visual arts, I have found my inspiration in a personal obsession for order, the trace, the object and the space. Within these images I intervene and stage absurd situations in a specific spaces for the camera to create not narrative, but descriptive images of a particular reality. Playful and inventive, my ideas may stem from a desire to mould a particular material or object – from hand dryers to ping pong balls – with which I explore my relation with the World. Trans-actions is about staging and documenting absurd transitory and ephemeral situations for the camera in museum spaces. The intention is to appeal to open answers and questions from the audience, not only for the situations in front of the camera, but also for the ideas behind the camera. In a time in which corporate tentacles are reaching artistic cartographies, subjectivity is becoming more and more important. Perhaps if we want to redefine and think new relations, we need to find something that will remove us from our immediate life not only in a simple and ordinary approach, but also in a poetic way. Perhaps, if we create honest transactions in a value free way through our voice between the objects, the audience, and us, we will continue unfolding primary existential questions to project, trace, face and operate our context. This body of work relates to “The Spaces of the Image” in the sense that I believe the specific physical space of the image can open and create imaginary spaces to create, project, trace and denounce relations in our context. Jimenez