Man in Heels Collage

Clotilde Jiménez (b. Honolulu, Hawaii, 1990) is a visual artist based in London. Jiménez has been developing figurative collages on paper made from everyday materials (j-cloth, brown paper, kitchen towel) combined with found imagery gleaned from free magazines, and drawn or painted elements that center black, queer male bodies. The collages are to a greater or lesser extent, self-portraits that explore and trace his own identity and how to represent himself in the face of the constraints and biases of Western Culture. The materials Jiménez focuses on using in his collages form a kind of subtext and have the potential to connect the personal nature of the works with more general political conditions.