ARTIST STATEMENT:
Sara Jimenez is a Filipina-Canadian artist who uses performance, sculpture, drawing and installation, to explore relationships between material impermanence and trans-cultural memory. She creates visual metaphors around concepts of home, absence, and origins. The materials she uses are either visually delicate or inherently are in a state of transformation or decay. She is a collector of recordings and residues. Among other things, she collects familial narratives, abandoned objects, debris, compost, colonial texts and photos from the Philippines, maps, and textiles. Through material experimentation, she combines and rearranges elements from her collections to complicate pre-existing narratives of place, lineage, and temporality.
Port 2016 Door, plaster, photo imprint Port consists of a halved door with 2 dowels at the bottom that sink into the floor, making the door half emerge from the ground. On its surface, I attached a plaster cast from part of the door and ad
The Tide 2015 black paper, salt crystals, found rope and branch The Tide is a scroll of black paper that was immersed in salt water for about a month. Over the month, the water evaporated and crystallized the salt onto the paper. It was then suspended and hung ove
Strata 2016 Plaster, printed colonial photos from the Philippines, fabric
Fata Morgana 2016 Digital C-Prints, Iron and copper paint, patina
Fata Morgana (Detail) 2016 Digital C-Prints, Iron and copper paint, patina
Shore 2016 Steel, water, plaster casts
Abyssal 2016 Silk organza, debris and organic matter, programmed lights, sound Abyssal was an immersive installation made out of hand-woven silk nets and collected and sculpted debris from abandoned beaches. It was inspired by the idea of fragmented cultural memory and the ocean
Abyssal 2016 Silk organza, debris and organic matter, programmed lights, sound Abyssal was an immersive installation made out of hand-woven silk nets and collected and sculpted debris from abandoned beaches. It was inspired by the idea of fragmented cultural memory and the ocean
From Dust You Came (2) 2014 Salt crystals, silk organza strips, cups This is made out of strips of silk organza that hang from suspended cups in the ceiling. The cups are filled with a salt solution. Over time, the salt solution saturated the silk, and crysta