Poems of Inner Water: Fog in Los Angeles
18th Street Arts Center is pleased to present Ángela Jiménez Durán’s first exhibition in Los Angeles, Poems of Inner Water : Fog in Los Angeles. For this new presentation of the Poems of inner water, the shapes of invisible waters become ethereal and silent, like whispered secrets in a foggy evening.
Durán said, “My first night in Los Angeles, a thick fog shrouded the city, simultaneously revealing the water in the air and hiding the city.”
During her residency at 18th Street, Ángela has been researching the reality of water in Los Angeles, particularly the stories of the Los Angeles river. A river that has been buried, paved and erased, but that has however remained resilient and is now a place for restoration and reparation.
Poems of Inner Water is a series of drawings exploring 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.
The exhibition presents three new large scale drawings on fabric along with their poems, as well as a site-specific intervention with water, clay and sediments collected at the Los Angeles river.
The show will open publicly on Sunday 23rd February. The show will be open by appointment only until March 25th. To make an appointment please email:
Ángela Jiménez Durán, born in 1996 in Madrid, Spain, lives in the Paris suburbs and works at POUSH in Aubervilliers. A 2019 graduate of the École d’Arts de Cergy, her research in installation and sculpture blends science fiction, geology and biology, exploring uncertain futures.
Solo and duo exhibitions include phantom eclipse, El Tanque, Tenerife, ES (2024) The Landing of the Snake, Fundación Francis Naranjo, Gran Canaria, ES (2023), Alrededor de tu piel ato y desato la mía, Julio Artist Run Space, Paris, FR, (2023) and INCOMING DREAMS at Abbaye de Maubuisson, Val d’Oise, FR (2021).
Her work has been shown in national and international group exhibitions, including Aura’s Present Decay, Wehrmuehle Gmbh, Berlin, DE (2024), Matters through Matter, Jeddah, KSA (2024), Irrésistible, POUSH, Aubervilliers, FR (2023), It’s not the heat, it’s the dust, GROVE, London, UK (2023), Sol sal brilhas brilho, VAGA, Açores, PT, Troglodyte Guided Tour, La Tour Orion, Montreuil, FR (2023), Devenir Isla, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, ES (2022), Untitled, Km 0.2, San Juan, PR (2022), Antes de la explosao, Maús Habitos, Oporto, PT, (2022), The Room, INDUSTRA, Brno, CZE (2021), The Gate, Imagine The City, Hambourg, DE, (2021),Inter-locution, Glassbox, Paris, FR, (2019), and the Biennial SIART, MuseumTambo Quirquincho, La Paz, BO (2017).
In 2023, she was awarded the Art Éco-Conception Prize by Art of Change 21 x Palais de Tokyo. In 2021, she was selected for Passerelles, a program run by the Contemporaines association in Paris.
In 2024, she was granted the Call to Dream fellowship of the Sam Francis Foundation for a residency at 18th Street Arts Center, Los Angeles.