Ivelisse Jiménez: Campo de Resonancia

Schedule

Fri May 01 2026 at 09:00 am to 10:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

1125 Cruft St, Indianapolis, IN, United States, Indiana 46203 | Indianapolis, IN

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Jeremy D Efroymson Gallery
May 1, 2026 - January 17, 2027
Ivelisse Jiménez is “interested in how experience exceeds language, how what is sensed, felt, or intuited often resists being named." This is the power abstraction holds. In a world moving very fast and not always in directions any of us choose, her work proposes sustained looking as resistance — practice for the kind of attention the world needs more of, not less.
"Campo de Resonancia" — Resonant Field — is a large-scale installation built from hand-painted transparent and colored vinyl and reclaimed plastics. Though discarded by Indianapolis residents and altered by Jiménez, the plastics hold a history like the CAMi building itself, started in the late 1800s by Weber Dairy.
"Campo de Resonancia" asks every person who enters to first pass through something that has no single meaning, no narrative arc, no instruction about how to feel. Conceived as a "permeable labyrinth," the work offers no single vantage point. You are absorbed into it. You cannot see this work the same way from two positions. It is a field of conditions. You are one of the conditions.
The materials are not neutral. Plastics are "deeply entangled with human survival, convenience, and innovation, yet inseparable from environmental degradation." There is no resolution to this contradiction. So Jiménez works inside it.
Puerto Rico receives what the ocean carries with no elsewhere for it to go. Her reclamation of discarded plastics is not a conceptual gesture — it is a practice shaped by proximity. The beauty is a complication. When something you recognize as garbage becomes luminous, you are not being told waste is fine. You are being asked to stay with the contradiction longer than you are comfortable. What "Campo de Resonancia" carries into this landlocked city, among other things, is the ocean.
For this commission, the materials came from here — from people making an ordinary gesture, letting something go, that became an act of collective construction. What you move through is partly made of what Indianapolis decided it was done with. The first thing you encounter in this new museum space is a work built, in part, from what you gave.
"Campo de Resonancia" creates a situation — a "space of attentiveness" — where something can happen between you and the material, between you and the light, between you and the stranger moving through the same layered field. What happens there is yours.
Curator - Shauta Marsh
About the artist
Ivelisse Jiménez’s practice presents visual propositions concerning the construction of meaning in dialogue with the inhabited space. Her work has been exhibited in the United States, Europe, Latin America, and Puerto Rico, including Prague Art Biennale, Ecuador’s Cuenca Biennale, and Special Project Rooms at ARCO Madrid. She is the recipient of a Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors grant, Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation grant, and Venice Italy Arte Laguna 1st Prize in Painting. Her work is part of collections at Museo del Barrio NY, Bronx Museum NY, Museo de Arte de PR, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de PR, CAB de Burgos, Spain, among others. Jiménez holds a BA in Humanities from the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras and an MFA from New York University. After living and working in New York for twenty years, she now has her residency and studio in Puerto Rico.
Spanish Translation:
Ivelisse Jiménez está "interesada en cómo la experiencia supera al lenguaje, en cómo lo que se siente, se percibe o se intuye a menudo resiste ser nombrado." Este es el poder que sostiene la abstracción. En un mundo que se mueve muy rápido y no siempre en direcciones que alguno de nosotros elige, su obra propone la mirada sostenida como resistencia — práctica para el tipo de atención que el mundo necesita más, no menos.
Campo de Resonancia es una instalación de gran escala construida con vinilo transparente y de colores pintado a mano y plásticos recuperados. Aunque descartados por residentes de Indianápolis y transformados por Jiménez, los plásticos guardan una historia como el propio edificio de CAMi, fundado a finales del siglo XIX por Weber Dairy.
Campo de Resonancia le pide a cada persona que entra que primero pase a través de algo que no tiene un solo significado, ni un arco narrativo, ni instrucciones sobre cómo sentir. Concebida como un "laberinto permeable," la obra no ofrece un único punto de vista. Uno es absorbido por ella. No se puede ver esta obra de la misma manera desde dos posiciones. Es un campo de condiciones. Usted es una de esas condiciones.
Los materiales no son neutrales. Los plásticos están "profundamente entrelazados con la supervivencia humana, la conveniencia y la innovación, pero inseparables de la degradación ambiental." No hay resolución para esta contradicción. Entonces Jiménez trabaja dentro de ella.
Puerto Rico recibe lo que el océano trae, sin ningún otro lugar adonde ir. Su recuperación de plásticos descartados no es un gesto conceptual — es una práctica moldeada por la proximidad. La belleza es una complicación. Cuando algo que reconoces como basura se vuelve luminoso, no se te está diciendo que el desperdicio está bien. Se te pide que permanezcas con la contradicción más tiempo del que te resulta cómodo. Lo que Campo de Resonancia trae a esta ciudad mediterránea, entre otras cosas, es el océano.
Para esta comisión, los materiales vinieron de aquí — de personas que hicieron un gesto ordinario, dejar ir algo, que se convirtió en un acto de construcción colectiva. Lo que atraviesas está hecho en parte de lo que Indianápolis decidió que ya no necesitaba. Lo primero que encuentras en este nuevo espacio museal es una obra construida, en parte, con lo que tú diste.
Campo de Resonancia crea una situación — un "espacio de atención" — donde algo puede suceder entre tú y el material, entre tú y la luz, entre tú y el desconocido que se mueve a través del mismo campo de capas. Lo que sucede allí es tuyo.
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