Entes

JOAN JIMENEZ ‘ENTES’

PERU / UNITED STATES

Joan Jiménez Suero (42) lives and works in Miami, US. He graduated from the Escuela Superior de Artes Visuales Corriente Alterna in 2011. Jiménez Suero and his relationship with muralism dates back to the year 2000, where for the first time pieces with origins in old school graffiti came to light accompanied by his crew «DMJC». With a long trajectory in the street art scene, his work has traveled to countries such as Germany, France, Portugal, Spain, Arab Emirates, Cuba, Dominican Republic and the entire American continent. It is worth mentioning his visit to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Bogota, Colombia where he presented as a solo exhibition his most recent project: «Decolonized Manifesto» which talks about the various political and social events that have addressed Latin America from a post-colonial perspective.

During the development of his artistic practice it has been evident the rootedness in front of the look of that minority, of the other; consequently, the presence of symbols and signs in relation to elements that coexist with a complex city like Lima; violence, inequality and above all social injustice, demand from the Latin American spectator a relation of belonging to the city they inhabit in a current context.

The transversal axis that the artist evidences in his work is to transfer from his interpretation, the dialogue that a city establishes with art, according to his own means of representation, such as posters, tags, scratches, phrases, etc.