Exhibition

Jesús Jiménez - Synesthesia

2 Jul 2021 – 15 Aug 2021

Special hours

02-Jul-2021
18:00 – 22:00
09-Jul-2021
18:00 – 22:00
16-Jul-2021
18:00 – 22:00

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Cable Depot

London
England, United Kingdom

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  • Nearest Bus Stop: Warspite Road. Busses 177, 161, 180, 472 from Greenwich and North Greenwich
  • Nearest train station: Woolwich Dockyard. Trains regularly from London Bridge
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Private View: Friday 2 July 6-10pm

Performance: Friday 9 July 7pm
Performance: Friday 16 July 7pm

Cameras live from Sunday 4 July

About

Jesús Jiménez asks big questions and is not afraid to go straight for the heart of the matter. Whether he is recording the vast amounts of money sent home by Mexican migrant workers in the US, or now digging into how we have been living for over a year with the still ongoing global pandemic, he manages to capture and evoke the complex feelings that arise from our human experiences of phenomena that are bigger than us, that consume us as populations. His obsession with numbers underpins his work, and in the past he has used numbers both as direct signifiers of information (his photographs of US and Mexican currency in Money Series are all titled according to the amount of dollars or pesos pictured) and as personal meditation (in Mathematical Anagrams, the artist uses numbers to make sense of his experience of being kidnapped). For his residency at Cable Depot Jiménez is preparing to saturate the space with numbers, via projections and performances, formed from an overwhelmng repetition of masses of digits in a variety of forms. In the end it becomes impossible to recognize or cope with these as holding information or meaning, so that the viewer (and one imagines the artist) is completely weighed down by the sheer burdern of numbers, allowing emotion to emerge of a kind that I feel we have all become familiar with since the pandemic began. All of us have been entranced and repulsed by an ever evolving stream of numbers of incomprehensible magnitude - infections, deaths, r-rates, 1st dose vaccinations, 2nd dose vaccinations, new variant numbers – and we have watched these rise and fall and felt our fate tied to them as they assign value to our fears for ourselves and others, as they determine lockdowns and narrate our hope for it to all be over some day. In the end however, these numbers remain essentially incomprehensible, impossible to imagine the vast global reality they represent on the ground. Jiménez dives right into this vast sea of numbers, bringing forth the emotional, embodied content within, using numbers to make sense of numbers as an artist and a human living through this right now.

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Iavor Lubomirov

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Jesús Jiménez

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