Jesus Jimenez
Photographer, video and installation artist Jesus Jimenez has in the last two years been selected for the FotoFest Biennial in Houston, best graduating artist shows at the Photographer's gallery and the David Roberts Foundation as well as being part of the National Photography Archive of the National Anthropology and History Institute in Mexico. Playful and inventive, his work stems from a desire to mold often mundane or functional objects - from hand dryers, to bricks or shopping trolleys - to stage and document absurd transitory situations. These recorded traces allude not to a narrative that has passed but to a particular reality, an inhabited space that bears witness to a person's impact on the world.
Playing I, Paper, Center George Pompidou
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Photography
35.6cm x 27.9cm
Lambda print, Metallic paper
Edition of 5 and 2 ap
A paper trail from the toilets of the Centre Pompidou. The context of an art establishment's toilet is not a cheap dig. The artist sees it as one of the last spaces where we are not traced, with no CCTV, no satellite, no invigilators. Although it is a private space within a public space, the museum toilet provides a level of freedom to the public that cannot be found in the 'public' space outside it.
£800
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