Clotilde Jiménez Explores the Black Body and Queer Identity in "THE CONTEST"

Chicago's Mariane Ibrahim Gallery is presenting Clotilde Jiménez's newest body of work in a solo show called "THE CONTEST." The exhibition explores the Mexico City-based artist's own queer imagination to physicality and his adoption of the boxer and bodybuilder as motifs. Through his techniques of fragmentation and collage, Jiménez examines the way the intersection of athleticism and queerness relate to himself as a Black male.In his works for "THE CONTEST," Jiménez grapples with his estrange...