(click image for more details)Playing VI Red Ball Lines, Tate Britain, 2008
Lambda print metallic paper on aluminium
30cm x 40cm
Playing VII, Kit, Tate Britain, 2008
30cm x 40cm
Playing, Paper, Center George Pompidou, 2007
30cm x 40cm
Playing II, Ping & Pong, Tate Britain, 2007
30cm x 40cm
Co-dependency II, Flying Paper, Tate Britain, 2007
30cm x 40cm
Jesus Jimenez works in photography, video and installation to explore his relationship to the world. He declares a personal obsession for order, the object and the trace it leaves behind. He creates staged scenarios using various materials and objects – from ping-pong balls to toilet rolls – placed in everyday interiors, such as corridors and public toilets (often those situated in the galleries where his work might one day end up being exhibited).
'Whether he's adjusting the phones in a New York telephone booth into perfect symmetry, so that they are talking to one another, or moving two hand dryers so that they're blowing directly at each other, again in perfect symmetry, his works are witty and inventive, leaving their own physical trace on the places he photographs.'1
These absurd, transitory and ephemeral set-ups often revisit the gadgets and games of childhood memories, where the ordinary becomes extraordinary. Poetic moments of daydreaming, Jimenez's intention is to create an open space for the audience, one where play is an end in itself, with endless possibilities, rather than creating an experiment that strives to arrive at concrete answers.
Paul Stone, 2008
1. Rebecca Wilson, Saatchi Online
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