Jimena Tercero (Madrid, 1998) is a multidisciplinary artist who, through video, performance, and painting, investigates the relationship between the limits of identity and the human body. Her practice addresses concepts such as memory, tangibility, and play, exploring the subconscious pain inscribed in the body’s memory.

Tercero trained in various fields: painting with Lola Albín, analog photography in Cambridge (2014), and audiovisual media, developing as a filmmaker between 2018 and 2020 with references such as director Víctor Erice and production company El Deseo. She completed her education with a Master’s in Creative Direction at ELISAVA and developed her performance practice at La Juan Gallery. In 2011, she was part of the children’s jury at the Festival de Cine de Isfahán in Isfahán.

She has directed pieces such as Private (2016) and Paranoid (2021), exhibited at Galería Aspa Contemporary, where she addresses subconscious pain embedded in bodily memory. She continues this research in works such as Yo mi me conmigo(2023), presented at Teatros del Canal; Inside Voices (2021), filmed at Conde Duque with the guidance of Itziar Okariz; and La última regla at La Juan Gallery.

She presented Navel Bite at Galería Sinespacio, where she questions contemporary dialogue mediated by the identity we construct through mobile phones, emphasizing the individualization of the subject and their relationship with the image. She also presented EDEN at Galería White Lab, reinterpreting the biblical myth of Adam and Eve from a critical perspective on gender roles.

Her latest performance, Out of View, presented at Galería Nebula, reflects on the perception of the human body and space, questioning identity and self-image through an installation of mirrors surrounding the naked body, turning it into a medium to decompose, multiply, and reinterpret the self.

In parallel, she directs documentaries such as También estás aquí for ArtforChange–La Caixa, focused on autism, and fashion films for editorials and brands such as Puma, Dior, and Dockers. She has also served as art director on various films for artists such as Sen Senra and Jorge Drexler.

She has participated in artistic residencies such as Medialab alongside Niño de Elche and Miguel Álvarez Fernández, where she developed voice-based work (2021), and La Juan Gallery (2024–25). In 2025, she was part of the special jury of the Asian Film Fest de Barcelona and participated in the art residency at the International Cultural Fondation Mousseum of Assilah (Morocco).

She also directs the documentary Contando Ovejas, premiering in 2026, a portrait of two shepherds in Majadahonda that reflects on rural memory and its relationship with territory and time.