The Art of Jônatas Chimen
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The crushed series

In this collection the artist uses crushed wood charcoal as an allusion to genealogy, as wood relates to the symbolism of a family 'tree.' The use of newspaper, immigration documents, and fabric pastiches relate to our multi-layered identity, as a construct which is dependent upon one's natural, historical, and social environments. The use of zeppelins hovering over the cityscape are a statement about the concern to live unconstrained lives in an ever-more-constraining world. The use of broken lexicon is to give the viewer a brief experience of having language difficulties, as immigrants often do when trying to decipher a written piece of text in a new land. As for the human figures, they are related to personal (and learned) nostalgic memories which narrate social, romantic, infantile, and marital situations ingrained in the artist's consciousness.
  • Home
  • About
  • In Thy Tent I Dwell
  • FedExile
  • 5 Madonnas in Exile
  • Videos
  • Published Books
  • A Stranger in a Strange Land
  • Metanarratives
  • Innerverse
  • Baba Yaga
  • Diaspora Creature
  • I Am Ethel
  • A Painter and a Ballerina
  • Exile Archetypes
  • The Crushed Series
  • The Journey
  • Unbuttoned
  • Industrial-Symbolism
  • The Illuminatur Project
  • Illuminavit Autem Vitam
  • Catalogs
  • Pressroom
  • Academic Research
  • Host Jônatas
  • Contact