A QUESTIONABLE POSITION BY DEFAULT

A Questionable Position by Default is a photographic installation project that presents an analysis on image representation, masculinity, power structures, exoticism and their related iconography. It plays on how those topics have been traditionally displayed and our position as viewers.

Yuka with flowers

A QUESTIONABLE POSITION BY DEFAULT

exhibition at the Royal College of Arts. London, 2015

Interview at A-B Magazine

Interview about my last projects at the american Aint Bad Magazine.

Review of the Royal College of Arts Show

ARTLYST reviewed the photographic presence of the RCA Show mentioning my installation.

A QUESTIONABLE POSITION BY DEFAULT

Royal College of Arts Show

25 June - 5 July 2015

12 - 6 Daily

Howie Street - LONDON - SW11 4AS

STATEMENT

A Questionable Position by Default focuses on the analysis of what an image represents and what it is telling us about our position as viewers. I work across fiction and documentary, building narratives through the construction of highly staged photographs of actors and/or real scenarios populated by non-actors. The representation of the real and its further reconstruction are key elements of my field of enquiry. These fictional images sit alongside documentary work to produce narratives where the line between realism, fiction and the theatre of life is blurred, questioning our perception of the "other" and ourselves. In researching power, control, gender and their performativity I have structured a body of work that plays upon the artifice of the traditional models of hierarchy, the white male position and its translation into imaginary.

I use these mediums to reflect the representation of power that certain images have been given as a position of default by the dominant class. Concepts such as otherness, exoticism and sexuality are recurrent themes in my work.

In grouping, constructing and reframing these images, I attempt to offer new narratives. The juxtaposition of images help to build up an analysis of how those narratives have been influencing western ways of seeing, becoming so much the norm as to appear almost invisible.

ABOUT

Carlos Jimenez. Filmmaker and Photographer.

Shows include Royal College of Arts (London), Battersea Arts Centre (London), Galerie F5.6 (Munich), KCUA (Kyoto), LOOP Videart (Barcelona), IN-SONORA (Madrid), National Library (Madrid)...

Comisions and Publications include Victoria and Albert Museum, National Portrait Gallery, The Times, The Guardian, Sennheiser, Der Grief, It´s Nice That, amongst others.

E: carlos.jimenez.email@gmail.com

P: +44 (0) 7999 790 418

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