Pool: Comings & Goings

2000

Synopsis:

This imagery addresses the very human, unrelenting quest for freedom and the allusion of confinement with-in one’s own skin.  It focuses on the segment from youth to adolescence and beyond, when children begin to form their own sexual identities and seek to break away from the ties that bind them.  Fluid imagery of a pubescent girl swimming in a deep blue pool coupled with soft sounds of gurgling water and a beating heart eerily represents innocence soon to be lost in the inevitable flight from the nest/womb.  

The work can be presented as a single channel image on any flat screen display or in installation form. As installation the video images and sounds are projected to the floor from overhead into a black, vinyl "kiddy pool".  The pool randomly placed in a stark, dimly lit space takes on extra dimension as it becomes a portal to deep recesses of the viewer’s mind.  Hand written text painted on the sides of the pool "round and round she goes…where she stops...nobody knows…" The piece is inspired by a song of long lost love, "Te Quiero Dijiste" written by Maria Grever.

1:33 minutes on loop, color/audio VHS 2000, LCD projector, VCR, vinyl inflatable, pool, acrylic paint, plexiglas, 10’x 4’x 4’

Credits:       

  • Alette Simmons-Jiménez: Concept and creation, camera, direction, sound, editor, producer.

  • The Swimmer:  Kimberly Jimenez                     

Screenings:     

  • 2014 Espacio Enter Canarias, with Red Nomade curator: Cristina Ghetti, TEA , Tenerife, Canary Islands

  • 2014 Performa Experimenta, Shamballa Gallery, curator: Janet Slom, Ft Lauderdale FL

  • 2010 Santander Summer Festival, Hip & Cool, curator Macu Moran, Santander, Spain

  • 2006 Scope Art Fair, Perpetual Art Machine of NY, Miami, FL

  • 2001 Eyedrum Art/Music Gallery, Panoptic Mind: Untitled, Atlanta, GA

Installations:

  • “2nd Annual Unaffiliated Artists Exhibit” Miami Art Exchange, Miami, FL –curator Bernice Steinbaum

  • “Women/Singular” The Deering Estate, Miami-Dade Div. of Arts & Culture, Miami, FL   

  • “Stop/Motion” Solo Show, Inter-American Development Bank Galleries, Washington, DC

  • “Panoptic Mind: Untitled” Eyedrum Gallery of Art and Music, Atlanta, GA 

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