CUERPO FLOTANTE

The oil paint roars with a disquieting, unbridled haste, converging into gray landscapes with iridescent flashes, whose calm is disrupted by a gloomy tangle of fragmented bodies, bursting in an anonymous squeeze within public transport. The identity of the artist, Javier Jaimes (1983), with the complicity of the wind, dissipates and merges with dead routes, dreams, concrete, the scent of wet chrysanthemums radiating from the Jamaica Market, and the tired smog in a blurry instant within the chaos.

“Cuerpo Flotante” (“Floating Body”), the artist’s second solo exhibition, is a visual and personal narrative that serves as a tribute to the Federal District, the lost identity of what is now called “CDMX.” It evokes the fleetingness of shadows, the weary walk, the dreamlike space between each step absorbed in nothingness, the urgency of environmental contingencies, the ephemeral dance of the factory’s murmur, and the morning chaos. Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl and Torre Mayor combine in an immaculate artificial dream that rests softly in anonymity, longing for and pursuing an illusory paradise, in shades of aqua green, flag green, and pastel green—a less gray urban chimera. This journey invites us to contemplate the fleetingness of the everyday, time radiating like a floating body rushing to contain the intangible dreams of asphalt in our hands.

(Text by Pamela Sustaita)