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JIMENA CHAVEZ DELION
Peru, 1989
Chávez Delion's work is based on the experience of urban spaces as circuits between ephemeral elements charged with both political and affective content. He is interested in the ways in which materiality, geography and customs intertwine in everyday life, working especially in contexts organized around informal economies. The journey she wants to describe with her work begins with exchange, informality and precariousness, and moves towards how otherness, marginality and the aspirations of everyday life seep materially into subjectivity. On the other hand, her work also arises from the empathy she feels for the encounter of waste or gestures in marginalized urban contexts, for example, to move towards reflections on concepts of value and globalization.
In her practice, Jimena cares about how materiality can be a living vestige that speaks about the recent past and social dynamics. How material culture can construct its own narratives about neoliberal contexts where desires for progress are mixed with scarcity, resourcefulness and resourcefulness.
Formally, in his pieces and installations he is interested in finding a sort of second economy of material. Promoting the coexistence between heterogeneous elements that coexist in the popular and the intimate as a way of subverting the norm that divides the peripheral from the central, the form from the content, the industrial from the artisanal. This heterogeneous dimension, inhabited by scraps, mistakes, materials that imitate or contain others, symbols and intermittent patterns, has a value in itself and, in that sense, should be preserved.
Graduated with honours in Fine Arts from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Jimena continued her MA in Visual Arts at l'ENSAV La Cambre in Brussels and in 2019 she completed the MA In Situ3 programme at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp. In 2012 he won the Adolfo Winternitz prize. His exhibitions include "Metales o maneras" (solo show), Galería Enrique Guerrero - Mexico City 2019; "Desde el escombro" (solo show), Crisis gallery - Lima 2017; "Oasis Paraíso, Proyecto Amil - Lima 2020; "Gracias, ven de nuevo, In Situ3 - Antwerp 2019; "Lengua bárbara", Casado Santapau - Madrid 2019; "Contrabando", Washington Project for the Arts - Washington DC 2018; "Premio Nacional de pintura", Museo Central - Lima 2018; "Premio ICPNA, Icpna - Lima 2018; "Land (e) scape", Designtransfer UDK - Berlin 2017; "Generación Y", galería Y - Lima 2017; "Fuera de la oficina", Louise 186 - Brussels 2016; "Como escapar de um armário", División de Artes Skrei - Porto 2016; among others. In 2017 he attended the Espositivo residency in Madrid.
Lives and works in Peru.
