Elena Jiménez. Me das tus manos. Archivo de mujeres creadoras

Exhibition by artist Elena Jiménez at CentroCentro in Madrid, made up of plaster casts of the hands of contemporary women creators that together form a sculptural archive on memory and the body.

The exhibition is a sculptural and research-based project that organises an archive in which memory takes form through plaster casts. Each piece captures the hands of contemporary women artists and creators, with their lines, folds and marks, as a record of their life journeys and their working processes.

The works are not presented separately but as a collective whole that grows with each new participation. They belong to feminist practices that recover narratives silenced by cultural history and propose new forms of representation. Each cast affirms what women have created, thought and passed on, in contrast to the absences that have marked the historical record.

The work grows out of collaborative encounters and spaces of listening, where the participants symbolically offer their hands as a sign of mutual trust. Creation is understood as a relational and community-based practice. Elena Jiménez, whose career includes drawing, photography and process-based installations using expanded graphics, here sets up a dialogue between the body and a fragile material such as plaster, in which the gesture seeks to endure.