Biography
When you look at Jimena’s paintings, you find yourself in front of an impeccably executed work with clearly intentional but unorthodox compositions. However, the true dimension of her work is in it’s theme, the subjects -not necessarily human- which sometimes can be machines transforming themselves into individuals to a point which you can identify yourself with them.
When we see these subjects in absolute loneliness, right in front of the immensity, or maybe in total emptiness, you cannot help to find a reference to the individualization process, that moment when the human psyche is born and we become conscious of being undivided entities. Probably a reference to an intimate event in each of us is what creates a sense of melancholy and nostalgia, common in Jimena’s work.
Or maybe they’re just scenes of the archetypal “Hero's Journey”, someone with a purpose above all. It is here, where Jimena let’s us be a part of her work letting us choose the stage of the journey and the perspective of that exact moment that can be relaxing or subtly disturbing.
