chicago ILLINOIS

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

jimenez LAI: The White Elephant is roughly 10’x10’x10’. It has three basic premises:
A building inside a building, somewhere between a super-furniture and a small house.
An object that tumbles to attain multiple orientations to blur the qualification plans and sections.
An object that is hard on the outside, soft on the inside.

What is a building that can tumble freely without gravity or fixed orientations, hard on the outside but soft on the inside, and obstructs the continuity of interior spaces like an elephant in a room? This installation is a freestanding micro building / macro furniture that questions projection, inside/outside, rigidity/fluidity and size/scale.

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brooklyn NEW YORK

superhero: a pop-up exhibit with jimenez LAI

6pm – 8pm superfront presents superhero: a pop-up exhibit with jimenez LAI, curated by assistant curator jackie KOENIG, with additional installation coordination by maryana GRINSHPUN and seth LAUCKS.

the exhibit will open with a reception on april 10th at 6pm – 8pm immediately following the third mixtape workshop of the series presented at SUPERFRONT BK. artist talk facilitated by mitch MCEWEN at 6:30pm.

superhero will be on view from april 10 to may 9, 2010.

lexington KENTUCKY

experimental trickster, weaving a web of satirical relationships around the world of contemporary architecture, jimenez LAI states the following about his work.

fiction is the impetus of architecture, and architecture is one of the most powerful representations of culture. more specifically, the source of my work comes from interpreting taste, look, and trends. through acts of re-imagining fictional scenarios based on exaggerations of current practical and academic patterns, we can studiously investigate the alternate worlds and unexpected implications about architecture and urbanism.

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