Rubén Gimeno Giner

Painting project · Memory, identity and postmemory

Donde el tiempo se reúne

Rubén Gimeno Giner

This project begins with photographs, letters and stories from the family archive. Through painting, Rubén Gimeno explores how the experiences of earlier generations remain part of our identity, even when their stories reach us only in fragments.

View of Rubén Gimeno’s exhibition
Donde el tiempo se reúne · Espai Jove VLC, València · 2026

Painting What Begins to Disappear

Family images preserve faces and places of which few names or stories remain. Painting makes it possible to approach these absences without trying to fill every gap.

Place as an Archive

Les Rotes and Dénia connect personal memories with inherited stories. Places endure, allowing different generations to meet on the same painted surface.

Writing and Passing on Memory

Letters and the stories of my grandmother Clara accompany the photographs. Their words preserve ways of feeling and relating to the world that continue to resonate in the present.

Related works

Overlapping family scenes beneath the outline of Dénia’s castle.
At the Foot of the Castle
A black-and-white picnic scene appears on a wood surface with images and translucent layers.
Picnic in a Foreign Land
A set of nine screenprinted variations of a picnic photograph.
Picnic in a Foreign Land · Screenprint series
A family group portrait with some clearly defined faces and others reduced to dark silhouettes.
The Shadows of Las Rotas
Three wood panels with small photographic fragments and domestic motifs.
Family Letters Series
A vertical composition of family portraits and scenes layered with glazes.
The Journey Towards an Origin
A vertical work combining harbour images, family fragments and a fabric net.
Time Stitched Together
A family celebration in a high-contrast black-and-white print.
The Promise of Light
A bedroom with a bed beside a bright window, painted in shades of grey.
Where Oblivion Dwells
People gathered around a table in a black-and-white domestic interior.
The Density of Silence
A couple appears beside fragments of handwriting on a wood surface.
Dear Pepe, I Don’t Know What to Tell You
A vertical diptych bringing together family scenes from different periods in an interior.
Les Rotes
Family figures gather around a table in a warm-toned composition.
La Rota

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