Néstor Jiménez
gallery 3
One in a Million
Through seven pieces in different formats, such as easel painting, collage, ceramic sculpture, kinetic sculpture and mural painting, Jiménez traces a history familiar to him: events in the life of a working class man. This exhibition has taken the ambiguous phrase “One in a Million” as its title to speak to what Jiménez calls “the epic of a common man.”
This epic, intimate and affectionate, is also an essay on a vulnerable masculinity in flux, caught between the living conditions of industrial capitalism and something else that has yet to be fully defined. Although both are marked by systemic inequality, the latter is associated with the dematerialization of work through the service economy on digital platforms, from delivery drivers to the growing disappearance of office workers, the “common man” replaced by artificial intelligence.
It is in this moment of change that Jiménez invokes the persistent materiality of things by involving recycled objects and construction materials such as cement and plywood. The use of industrial materials and the spatial infrastructure of forms created by a brutalist reinvention of the city associates his work with the polyangular muralist techniques of David Alfaro Siqueiros. In these pieces, Jiménez takes up the contradictory reflections of Mexican muralism on political ideology, class and access to social welfare through a clarity that encompasses both the personal and the political.
Artist: Néstor Jiménez (Mexico City, 1988)
Curatorship: Lucía Sanromán
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