Daniela Jiménez Ruiz
Daniela Jiménez Ruiz
Exploring memory, transformation, materiality, and process
Exploring memory, transformation, materiality, and process
Exploring memory, transformation, materiality, and process
Colombian textile artist based in Barcelona.
Her practice explores memory, transformation, and materiality through textile processes and layered surfaces.
Colombian textile artist based in Barcelona.
Her practice explores memory, transformation, and materiality through textile processes and layered surfaces.
Colombian textile artist based in Barcelona.
Her practice explores memory, transformation, and materiality through textile processes and layered surfaces.
Featured Series
Featured Series
Textures of Change — Traces of Memory
Textures of Change — Traces of Memory
Textures of Change — Traces of Memory explores the ways we inhabit ourselves through time. Inspired by Platanus × hispanica, a tree deeply rooted in Barcelona’s urban landscape, the series reflects on transformation through layers, shedding, and the marks that remain. Its peeling bark suggests a metaphor for human experience: what is revealed, what stays hidden, and the traces that shape us over time. Together, the two works materialize a life process — from what lives within us before it becomes conscious, to what gradually emerges through awareness, recognition, and integration.
AI-generated installation mockup
AI-generated installation mockup
AI-generated installation mockup
AI-generated installation mockup
Hidden Pieces is positioned behind What Remains,
what is hidden is not absent, but held deeper within.
Explores the ways we inhabit ourselves through time. Inspired by Platanus × hispanica, a tree deeply rooted in Barcelona’s urban landscape, the series reflects on transformation through layers, shedding, and the marks that remain. Its peeling bark suggests a metaphor for human experience: what is revealed, what stays hidden, and the traces that shape us over time. Together, the two works materialize a life process — from what lives within us before it becomes conscious, to what gradually emerges through awareness, recognition, and integration.
What remains
What Remains reflects the moment in which awareness begins to emerge. It explores the layers that shape us and the gradual process of recognizing, inhabiting, and integrating them. What was once hidden starts to reveal itself, and with that recognitioncomes th e possibility of integration. In this piece, embroidery becomes a gesture of attention and integration — a way of slowly tracing, holding, and stitching into the surface what comes into view. What remains is not only what stays, but also what can finally be acknowledged as part of one’s own story.
Materials
Sensitized Jacquard fabric for cyanotype, free-motion hand embroidery with cotton, linen, and natural fibers
Dimensions
Approx. 55 cm wide × 200 cm high
Hidden pieces
Materials
Denim scraps, cyanotype traces, and free-motion machine embroidery
Dimensions
Approx. 55 cm wide × 200 cm high
Hidden Pieces reflects the hidden layers through which we also inhabit ourselves — the fragments, inherited traces, and lived experiences that remain beneath the surface before they are fully recognized. It evokes a state of moving through life shaped by what is already there, but not yet consciously understood. The work speaks of what is carried within: family traces, memory fragments, and experiences that continue to shape the self even when they remain partially obscured. In the installation, this work is placed behind What Remains, reinforcing its condition as what is held further inward: what is concealed, yet continues to sustain and shape the self.
AI-generated installation mockup
Hidden Pieces is positioned behind What Remains,
what is hidden is not absent, but held deeper within.
What remains
What Remains reflects the moment in which awareness begins to emerge. It explores the layers that shape us and the gradual process of recognizing, inhabiting, and integrating them. What was once hidden starts to reveal itself, and with that recognition comes the possibility of integration. In this piece, embroidery becomes a gesture of attention and integration — a way of slowly tracing, holding, and stitching into the surface what comes into view. What remains is not only what stays, but also what can finally be acknowledged as part of one’s own story.
Materials
Sensitized Jacquard fabric for cyanotype, free-motion hand embroidery with cotton, linen, and natural fibers
Dimensions
Approx. 55 cm wide × 200 cm high
Hidden pieces
Hidden Pieces reflects the hidden layers through which we also inhabit ourselves — the fragments, inherited traces, and lived experiences that remain under the surface before they are fully recognized. It evokes a state of moving through life shaped by what is already there, but not yet consciously understood. The work speaks of what is carried within: family traces, memory fragments, and experiences that continue to shape the self even when they remain partially obscured. In the installation, this work is placed behind What Remains, reinforcing its condition as what is held further inward: what is concealed, yet continues to sustain and shape the self.
Materials
Denim scraps, cyanotype traces, and free-motion machine embroidery
Dimensions
Approx. 55 cm wide × 200 cm high