Ramón Jiménez Cárdenas
(he/his) (b. Oaxaca, México)My work involves thinking with and against modernity, and mestizaje; thinking of myself as an artist whose subject matter is design, and how the western world is designed. I draw inspiration from the tropic and found objects that develop into functional works, installations, or moments to share research.
Also a curator at https://laclinica.art/
ramon.jimenez.cardenas@gmail.com
@for.opacity
CV available upon request
︎curatorial︎
Designers From the Flatland
Modernism Without Modernity
A Knife To Carve a Knife With
Disorientation Devices
︎object︎
La historia del equipal
The Extraction Before Us
Heteronormative Scents
Restoration no.1
Antilop
Mending Wall
︎writing︎
You Extract Me (performance)
Promiscuous Kinship (thesis)
Bedtime Stories (conversations)
Modernism Without Modernity
16/03/2023 - 08/04/2023at an.other.world.project.space
with:
Kent Chan (film screening)
Rib’s library (reading)
Juliette Mirabito (window intervention)
Hedvig Koertz (exhibition)
Modernism Without Modernity, an equal parts research, curatorial, and production based project which took place at AnOtherWorld. Modernity can be broadly understood as the “western project of civilisation”. It has long been concerned with the reproduction of the productive body, atomisation, and the creation of a consumerist society. Therefore, the project is born out of a need for alternative modes of being which exist in the paradigm of modernism without embodying modernity.
The exhibition opens to collaboration in order to share the creative process behind artistic research and knowledge production. Moments of publicly sharing research included, a reading, a film screening, an intervention in the windows to attract the neighbors, an artist talk, a open studio visit, and a exhibition opening on the closing day.
supported by the Gemeente Rotterdam
exhibition;
works made in conversation and collaboration with Hedvig Koertz
materials include but are not limited to: dried cactus, cyanotypes, branches, found steel, window frames, and fruit boxes
works made in conversation and collaboration with Hedvig Koertz
materials include but are not limited to: dried cactus, cyanotypes, branches, found steel, window frames, and fruit boxes
film screening;
A Tropics Expanded (2020) by Kent Chan
reading material;
Power Lines: Electricity in American Life and Letters, 1882-1952 (taken from Rib’s library)
La Raza Cosmica / the cosmic race (1925)
The Other Game: Lessons from How Life Is Played in Mexican Villages
A Tropics Expanded (2020) by Kent Chan
reading material;
Power Lines: Electricity in American Life and Letters, 1882-1952 (taken from Rib’s library)
La Raza Cosmica / the cosmic race (1925)
The Other Game: Lessons from How Life Is Played in Mexican Villages
window intervention; made in collaboration with Juliette Mirabito
*photos courtesy of Jake Caleb and myself