Performance Cycle: Abierto Infinito. Lo que el cuerpo recuerda

Jimena Tercero

Performance: OFF LINE

Saturday, March 7 – 7:00 PM

OFF LINE is a performative piece that seeks to reflect on how the digital era is transforming the body’s relationship with the world and with others. Interaction is increasingly constructed through screens and interfaces, and identity shifts toward the virtual realm, subordinating physical experience to digital representation. In this context, the body becomes fragile: it loses density, memory, and active presence, turning into a mere support for information or image.

Hyperconnectivity and fragmented attention generate an increasingly inert corporeality, characterized by a decrease in spontaneous movement and a reduction in direct sensory interaction. This raises fundamental questions: How is presence redefined when our relationship with the world depends on technological mediation? What will happen to bodily experience in a future where virtuality predominates over the physical?

There is a visible risk of progressive bodily passivity: bodies that remain still, whose activity is determined by devices, and whose memory is externalized into digital records. The fragmentation of physical experience and the primacy of technological representation create a scenario in which the body, though visible, is displaced from its original function as an agent of perception and action.

This conceptual framework invites reflection on how digitalization affects corporeality, memory, and social relationships, as well as on the vulnerability and inertia that permeate bodies in environments increasingly mediated by technology.

About Jimena Tercero

Jimena Tercero (Madrid, 1998) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores the limits of the female body, identity, and the subconscious through performance, video, and painting, addressing concepts such as memory, tangibility, and play. She trained in painting with Lola Albín, studied analog photography in Cambridge (2014), and audiovisual directing (2018–2020) under figures such as Víctor Erice and the production company El Deseo. She later completed a Master’s degree in Creative Direction at ELISAVA and furthered her performance training at La Juan Gallery. In 2011, she was a member of the Children’s Jury at the Isfahan International Film Festival (Iran).

She has directed works such as Private (2016) and Paranoid (2021), exhibited at Aspa Contemporary Gallery, as well as projects including Yo mi me conmigo (2023, Teatros del Canal), Inside Voices (2021, Conde Duque, with Itziar Okariz), and La última regla (La Juan Gallery). She has directed fashion films for editorials and brands such as Puma, Dior, and Dockers, and has worked as art director for artists including Sen Senra and Jorge Drexler, as well as directing the documentary También estás aquí for ArtforChange–La Caixa. Her projects include Out of View (Nebula Gallery), EDEN (White Lab Gallery), and Navel Bite (Sinespacio). She has participated in residencies such as Medialab with Niño de Elche and Miguel Álvarez Fernández. In 2025, she will serve on the Special Jury of the Asian Film Fest Barcelona and take part in the International Cultural Moussem of Assilah art residency (Morocco).