Clotilde Jiménez

In the Mexico City gallery with the artist as he guides us through the exhibition. For Jiménez, water is more than just a metaphor for the portal through which a different state of consciousness can be reached: it is the vehicle of a journey towards liberation. While it can begin as an act of leisure, the aquatic experience becomes a powerful matrix for introspection and truth. Courtesy of Mariane Ibrahim.

Mariane Ibrahim is delighted to present Clotilde Jiménez’s newest body of work, THE CONTEST. Marking his first solo show with the gallery. THE CONTEST unravels Jiménez’s own queer imagination to physicality. The works grapple with his deeply personal and once estranged relationship with his father, a bodybuilder and boxer. Jiménez adopts the boxer and bodybuilder as motifs, recalling early ideas of the body, specifically the Black male body. Placed within each ‘pose’ or boxing ring, the large scale boxers and body builders brawl, their positions mighty, next to bronze sculptures...