Clotilde Jiménez
La Tempestad

In an interview with La Tempestad, Clotilde Jiménez explains that his artistic approach is guided by the ideas he wants to convey, which allows him to combine different mediums such as collage, sculpture, dance, video, performance, and music. His latest project, The grotto. An opera in two acts, exhibited at Museo Jumex, is a clear example of this fusion of disciplines. Based on a real event that took place in La Garra, Guerrero, the work explores themes such as the body, race, gender, and sexuality through the assembly of everyday objects, a recurring feature in his work. Additionally, it is framed within a decolonial logic through the concept of mesofuturism, which rejects Eurocentric notions and proposes a vision of the future from an Indigenous and Afro-descendant perspective.

 

La gruta, which Jiménez developed in collaboration with choreographer Carla Segovia and composer Javier Antonio Bellato, is presented as an operatic installation with live projections and music, accompanied by the performance of cellist Adriana Castro. The installation also aims to challenge the historical barriers of museums, which have not always been inclusive spaces for all audiences. As Jiménez himself explains, "my intention was to create something for the people," with the goal of making art more accessible and challenging the exclusions these institutions have historically fostered.

 

Excerpted words written by Nicolás Cabral for La Tempestad.