NADA New York 2025

Sara Jimenez (b. 1984, London, Ontario) will present new wall works from her Stellar Channels series. Here Jimenez has created interspecies ceramic forms, referencing constellations, ancient Filipino designs, and mythological creatures from Filipino folklore. She is interested in creating sculptures that sit in between animal, human and plant, sentient beings that are not limited to one kind of body. She is also interested in having these forms come from a lineage of visual culture from her ancestral country, the Philippines. The constellations referenced are the shapes that were seen by ancient Southeast Asian way-finders, used for navigating the Pacific as well as for harvest. The geometric designs reference precolonial ornamentation from textiles, jewelry and amulets of the Philippines prior to European contact. Some questions she thinks about are, “How do we learn how to move through the world?How does one’s sense of self change when a “country of origin” is not bound by contemporary borders? What does it mean when we re-orient to celestial bodies for a sense of time and place?”