Ángela Jiménez Durán’s first solo exhibition in Germany, The Era of Temperature, explores our connection to water through temperature. Memories evaporate in frozen lakes, regrets dissolve in hot springs, and mild waters host the world’s decisions.
Her ‘Poems of Inner Water’ unfold the hidden stories, images and memories of water. Each drawing comes from a photograph of a water hose, part of a photo collection of water hoses. Each drawing is made with a poem written by the artist, following the invisible flow of water inside the water hose, narrating memories, stories of aquatic scientific phenomena, mythology and poetic waters.
For the exhibition at pied-à-terre, the works unveil a narrative at the crossroads of poetry and science fiction, inviting us to consider other possibilities of our physical reality. Delving in memory, ecology and science, every poem-drawing is presented as a chapter of the history of the ‘Era of Temperature’.
For this exhibition Jímenez Durán has deepened her research on literary science-fiction and its crossings with poetry. Works by Ursula K. Le Guin, Donna Haraway, René Barjavel and Moebius have inspired her to build a personal constellation of cosmologies and myths where questions of our time are taken one step further, or sometimes, completely reimagined from another perspective. The encounter between fiction and poetic language has always been a guiding thread in her work, where the words of Spanish poet Federico García Lorca or the influence of many Latin American actors from the Magic Realism come into play, like those of Juan Rulfo from ‘Pedro Páramo’ or Mariana Enríquez from ‘Nuestra Parte de Noche’.
In the story of the ‘Era of Temperature’, there are important characters that lead the narrative. In a time intricately linked to Memory and Time, Archaelogists develop a new practice, more sensitive and tactile, where their skin comes in contact with waters and senses the times these waters have gone through. Investigating through touch, they descend deep into the ocean, extending their hands to feel the temperatures of long gone civilizations.
Architects, on the other hand, work towards the future of the ‘Era of Temperature’. Observing how memories were being forgotten and our past erased, they now build the monuments and spaces to protect our history. Using ice as a construction material, they create places of reminiscence. For us to touch and linger, remembering what could have been lost.
Ángela Jiménez Durán (b. 1996, Madrid) lives and works in Paris. Her sculptures and installations weave materialities and fabulations into discontinuous narratives, imagining uncertain futures through geologic, biologic, and technologic imageries that question alternative modes of existence. She has presented solo and duo exhibitions at Sagrada Mercancía, Santiago (2025), 18th Street Arts Center, Los Angeles (2025), Kitteredge Gallery, Tacoma (2025), Picnic, Madrid (2024), POUSH, Paris (2024), El Tanque, Tenerife (2024), Fundación Francis Naranjo, Gran Canaria (2023), Julio Artist Run Space, Paris (2023), and Abbaye de Maubuisson, Val d’Oise (2021). Her work has also been included in international group exhibitions at Château La Coste, Aix en Provence (2025), Kunsthalle Trier (2024), Wehrmuehle, Berlin (2024), La Casa Encendida, Madrid (2022), and the SIART Biennial, La Paz (2017), among others. She received the Art Éco-Conception Prize (Art of Change 21 x Palais de Tokyo, 2023), was part of the Passerelles mentorship program in Paris (2021), and in 2025 was awarded the Call to Dream fellowship by the Sam Francis Foundation for a residency at 18th Street Arts Center, Los Angeles.
