Jaimini Patel
Jaimini Patel is a Senior Ruskin Tutor on the MFA course at the Ruskin.
Images: The new Moon with the old Moon in her arm, paper, blue-green algae, black/green/rooibos tea, sunflower/pumpkin/coconut oil, beeswax, plaster, graphite, china marker, turmeric, butternut squash, carob seed, avocado seed, hemp, cotton, pastel, paper bags, fluff, jasmine stem, plywood. 2018.
The title refers to the appearance of the new moon as the light reflected from earth reveals the dark side of the moon. Thus, emerge contemplations on cycles, nourishment, light, growth, time, and repetition. A drop of water containing blue-green algae lands as a bead on the surface of paper. As the water evaporates, the drop shrinks and the algae settle on the outskirts forming a darker ring delineating its border. With an oil drop, however, it is difficult to define its edge and to know when it has come to rest; a line must be approximated. In this work each series of daily practices and singular gestures are brought together, as colour transforms, edges bleed and forms come in and out of visibility.
Recent projects include: Artist in residence at Begbroke Innovation District, Oxford University Development, Since 2023; Bring into Being, Chiswick House, London, 2021; hmn edition 19, Village Club, Barrow Housing Estate, London; Fragile state, The Museum of Odessa Modern Art, Odessa, 2019; Every Object is a Thing but not everything is an object, Hollybush Gardens, London, 2018; An inventory of small acts, Archiv der Zeitgenossen, Krems, 2017; Measure, Centrum, Berlin, 2016; and Remainder 10/14-09/15, blank, Turin, 2015; DADU: conversations, DADU, East Nashville, 2015; Topography Disarranged, The Queen of Hungary Project Space, Aylsham, 2014.
