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Néstor Jiménez

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2021

1988

Mexico

Proyectos Monclova

Néstor Jiménez, installation view, Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City
Néstor Jiménez, installation view, Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City

Néstor Jiménez (Mexico City, 1988). Visual Artist graduated from the Escuela Nacional de Pintura Escultura y Grabado “La Esmeralda”, Néstor Jiménez’s work focusses on the relationship between the collective political and historical memory, and social movements that emerged in the late 1980s on the eastern outskirts of Mexico City.

Highlighting the processes that constructed these memories, Jiménez portrays the discursive and iconographic distortion of Leftist (Marxist-Leninist) thinking and how those memories shaped socio-political realities in Mexico by using memory exercises, reconstr ...