Jimenez Lai explores hypothetical scenarios of experimental architecture. By pressing alternate conditions against our context, the projects aim at interrogating different points of views and broaden the ways we engage conventions. Graphic novels and physical installations are the two primary weapons of choice, and we believe representation is more than half the battle. The drawings often explore storylines of architecture and urbanism that dramatize exaggerated realities. The projects swerve back into the physical world via the interactive installations derived from the stories. These installations are attempts to better understand the spatial implications of the two-dimensional fiction.
In other words, we are interested in all things spectacular – superficial or profound.
Jimenez Lai – Point Clouds
From Point Cloud 08, 2009
I saw Jimenez Lai on the Pilsen Art Walk, June 11, 2010