The Word for World is Poem

Date and time

29 Sept 2026 · 17:00

Venue

Galeria Lehmann

Location

Porto

Type

Exhibition

Price

Free

da artista Ángela Jiménez Durán Lehmann is pleased to present The Word for World is Poem | A Palavra para Mundo é Poema, the first solo exhibition at the gallery by Paris based artist Ángela Jiménez Durán (b. 1996, Madrid, ES). The exhibition’s title draws inspiration from Ursula K. Le Guin’s seminal science fiction novel The Word for World is Forest, in which an alien language uses a single word to encompass both "world" and "forest". Borrowing from this ecological and linguistic overlap, Jiménez Durán constructs a territory where poetry becomes the foundational principle for world building. Spanning painting, sculpture, and installation, the exhibition draws visitors into a choreography of entities and poems, invoking the artist’s ongoing investigation into the four elements, material transformation, and geological fiction. By engaging with the agency of matter, Jiménez Durán blurs the boundaries between the human and the non human, and her work unfolds as a discontinuous narrative in which materialities and fictional elements intertwine to imagine uncertain futures.