Participating Artist
Ángela Jiménez Durán & Felipe Romero Beltrán
Informations
June 5 → 9, 2024
8 Pass. des Gravilliers
Paris, France
Press Release
From June 5 until June 9, 2024, HATCH brings together the artists Ángela Jiménez Durán (b. 1996, Madrid, Spain) and Felipe Romero Beltrán (b. 1992, Bogota, Colombia) for a special project at Galerie Sator's space in the Marais. Jiménez Durán dialogues a site-specific intervention from her Poems of Inner Water series with Romero Beltrán's video El Cruce, winner of the CPGA - Emerige prize at ARCO Madrid 2024.
This presentation is accompanied by a series of private visits, book signings and poetry readings on Saturday June 8, from 10 am to 6.30 pm.
Through a complex language ranging from drawing to writing to video, the two artists form an active alliance with the material of water to render account of hidden narratives and images. By transporting the viewer into the invisible flows of water, a reflection arises on the unpredictable nature of states of transition, in both the physical and mental bodies. The Poem of Inner Water series describes watery mythologies, telling poetic stories about water in its sinuous forms, while the video entitled El Cruce (“The Crossing”) questions the singular way in which water crosses the world and therefore peoples.
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Ángela Jiménez Durán (b. 1996 in Madrid, Spain) lives in Paris 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). 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
Felipe Romero Beltrán (b. 1992, Bogotá, Colombia) is a photographer and visual artist based in Paris. He holds a PhD in Photography from the Complutense University of Madrid. Romero Beltrán’s work has received significant recognition, including the Prix Photo Elysée (2025), Emerige-CPGA Prize at ARCO Madrid (2024), Prix pour la photographie at Quai Branly (2024), Foam Paul Huf Award and Mapfre Award (2023), and the Aperture Portfolio Prize (2022). He has presented solo exhibitions at institutions such as Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris; Carré d’Art, Nîmes; Fundación Mapfre, Madrid and Barcelona; FOAM, Amsterdam; Deichtorhallen, Hamburg; and Aperture Foundation, New York. His work is held in public and private collections including Carré d’Art, FOAM, KADIST, Fenix Museum, and Aperture.
Installation view, Poems of Inner Water, Hatch Gallery, Paris, 2024. © Aurélien Mole. Courtesy of the artists and Hatch Gallery.
Installation view, Poems of Inner Water, Hatch Gallery, Paris, 2024. © Aurélien Mole. Courtesy of the artists and Hatch Gallery.
Ángela Jiménez Durán
The death of water
2021
Felt tip pen on tracing paper, poems
44 x 56 cm
Felipe Romero Beltrán
El Cruce
2022-2024
Five-channel video (color and sound)
’37’’46
Edition of 3 plus 2 artist's proof
Installation view, Poems of Inner Water, 2024 (details)
Installation view, Poems of Inner Water, 2024 (details)
