In his mixed-media collaged work, Mexico City-based Clotilde Jiménez celebrates the nuances of being a queer and black hispanic male while exploring the limitations placed on the body in light of race, gender and sexuality. In his highly personal work, he explores the universal experience of “blackness”, and the rigidity and racial tensions that surround the term in America and beyond. Jiménez is one of six artists currently featured in Disembodiment, an exhibition curated by Marianne Ibrahim, which brings together six emerging black American Artists, on view at UTA Artist Space in Los Angeles until 25 January 2020. Also featured are Jarvis Boyland, Jonathan Lyndon Chase, Jerrell Gibbs, Marcus Jahmal and Vaughn Spann. The exhibition sheds light on the future of the black body, and questions what living in “post-racial” America entails.
