Jimena Mendoza: Water has no hands

The book Water has no hands collects, preserves, and shares images and stories connected with places, processes of pollution, fire, distant encounters, wills, originality, the future, belts, cold, color, and friendship—at certain moments and times—in the form of a sculpture, mapping the recent work of Jimena Mendoza. It contains several essays on omnipresent simultaneity, masking and emergence, the cosmos and solar time. Torn images, compressed forms, shaken material, crushed, caressing, restraining.
As an artist, Jimena Mendoza (*1979, Mexico) collects cultural traces, adapted practices, contradictions, and disparate syncretisms, approaching them from her own mestizo experience. She has a penchant for everything that is divergent, distant, and foreign. In her work, she filters, decomposes, confronts, and synthesizes a wide variety of materials through her unique artistic vision. Since 2019, she has been teaching at the Sculpture 2 Studio at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague.