In her talk with Jairo Hoyos Galvis, artist Ángela Jiménez Durán will present an array of works focusing on water—its future, its stories, and ultimately, its poetics.
For curator Margaux Knight:
“Her installations are poetic clues of an enigmatic cartography, they draw the contours of an inhabited universe that radically questions the artist’s place in relation to the works, of human beings in relation to things, of living beings in relation to materials.
Ángela states that water is the co-author of Humedades [one of her recent works]. This assertion radically questions the place of the artist and shifts our focus to non-human things, inviting us to accept their reciprocal and creative agentivity. The concept of agentivity, i.e. the ability of a living being or entity to intervene independently in its environment, is central to her work.
This stance reflects her very special relationship with the world: for her, the works result from the artist, but are subsequently autonomous from it. Her installations are not static, but inhabit the world. They are shaped by the artist’s hand, but are then transformed by the infiltrations of the world. Ángela completes her gesture and withdraws, leaving the wax, clay or water to unfold” (Extract from Humedades, 2023).
Jiménez Durán is a guest Artist of the Departments of Art and Art History, Hispanic Studies, and Latina/o Studies at the University of Puget Sound.