Sasha Jimenez French
Artist statement
As a visual artist and choreographer, I find myself fascinated with blending memories into my current landscape. My practice often entails taking snapshots of my personal memories or those shared by others and turning them into exaggerated stories. While building small vignettes on stage and on a 2D surface, I create a completely new vocabulary of movement and line based on the specific words, events, and emotions that surround the memory. These pockets of memory and movement are the physical and metaphorical threads that pull at my various bodies of work. While accessing these memories, I am often confronted with unexpected emotions and forced to choose what to preserve. This results in the memory retained taking on an heirloom quality as it is preserved in the work.
Sasha Jimenez French is a Cuban American artist making work throughout Canada. Creating oversaturated portraits, memories of landscapes, and physically demanding movement work, layered with personal narrative. She is a past Resident Artist at the Tett Centre in Kingston. Sasha’s visual practice is informed by themes of identity, displacement, movement, and memory. Craving the scorched pavements and overgrown flora of her island home. French blurs the line between story and memory with oversaturated portraits and ideas of landscapes - often capturing Northern vistas through her salty Southern lens.
To know more about Sasha art work visit:
Art exhibition opening to the public: April 3, 2024
The show will remain up until the summer. Photos courtesy of the artist.
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Previous Exhibitions
Winter 2024: Worlds take a shape before me [and I find meaning within them] by Amelia Glancy
Fall 2023: The Make-a-Mural project
Summer 2023: Central Public School student art
Spring 2023: Savannah Shea, "Summer Bodies"
Winter 2022: Jill Glatt
Summer 2022: Francisco Corbett
Spring 2022: Kingston Hidden Artist Collective, "Through the Looking Glass"
Winter 2021: Tracy Olan, "Back to Nature"
Fall 2021: Virginia Maria Meeks + Kingston Punk Productions, KPP AT 20
Summer 2020: Vince Perez / Everlovin' Press, The Canadianist
Spring 2020: Julie Davidson Smith
Winter 2020: Chantal Rousseau
Fall 2019: Claire Grady-Smith
Summer 2019: Kingston Poets - Letterpress Editions by Everlovin' Press
Summer 2017: Morris Blanchard
2016-2017: Benjamin Nelson: Decade of Distraction
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