Jiménez-Balaguer's purpose was to establish a framework of knowledge of the human psyche based on Ferdinand de Saussure's language model, in order to show how painting is a universal medium for the understanding of the Self.

He learns to write in his language, Catalan, which was prohibited in Francoist Spain.It is years of experimentation for the painter as he works on the hidden matter, that which one keeps inside one's psyche: the fragile and subjective.

At the age of twenty, he goes to the mountains of the monastery in Montserrat and begins to paint with his friend, Josep Guinovart, experimenting a new freedom and liberating himself of the contingency of convention.

He meets Cesáreo Rodríguez-Aguilera and his wife Mercedes de Prat, and a close friendship ensues.He publishes a manifesto, He Escuchado, whereby he defines his aspirations along the vein of Stanley Cavell: 'Claim is what a voice does when it founds within itself in order to establish a universal assertion.

At the Galería Clan in Madrid, he receives the invaluable support of Manolo Millares, El Paso (grupo) and César Manrique, the latter becoming a good friend and inviting him to continue their contact.

The painters of the 20th century, mainly Joan Miró, insist on the need for a new art.In 1957, in the European May Salons, intellectuals such as Antoni Tàpies and Laurent Jiménez-Balaguer, present their latest works.

From then on, his work heralds a new period based on the understanding of the problem of human expression and its inabilities, inhibitions, prohibitions, and negations; Jiménez-Balaguer's paintings are a projection of the visualization of the unknown Inner.In spite of the abstraction of the images, he finds no reason they would be mysterious, magical nor mute; instead, they should be able to communicate meaning.

During these years, Jiménez-Balaguer concerns himself with the power of painting as force.He thinks that the informalist image bears witness to a semiotic pre-symbolic memory.It is during this time that he frees himself from the destruction of the 1950s and the scratchings of postwar Informalism, in order to step into the 21st century.

Jiménez-Balaguer's work gains the approbation and support of Pierre Restany and is introduced to Joan Hernández-Pijuan at the Galeria Calart Actual in Geneva.

The movement begins in the year 2000 in his studio in Chevry II, in Gif sur Yvettes.The theoretical base is related to the New Cultural studies.

Jiménez-Balaguer's work shares certain core values intrinsic to the field of Cultural studies and the theoretical struggle of intellectuals such as Julia Kristeva, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Lacan, Michel Foucault, Alexis Virginie Jimenez, Judith Butler.The artist questions what to do with the cardinal points of Western metaphysics and how to interpret a new vision of the human identity.

Existential figurations in the post-war period (1940-1966), MNAC, Barcelona – Spain Expository commissioner Alex Mitrani, text Boris Cyrulnik L'Hospitalet remembers Jiménez-Balaguer, Tecla Sala Art Center, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat - Spain - Expository commissioner Antoni Perna, text 'Towards what kind of Humanity?'

Alexis Virginie Jimenez Allò sagrat de Jiménez-Balaguer - obras 1956-2014, Montserrat Art Museum, Barcelona, Spain La memòria de la matèria, Hospitalet Museum, L’Harmonia - Art center - L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain Cicle Invasions Subtils amb Laurent Jiménez-Balaguer, Fundació Espai Guinovart, Agramunt – Catalonia – Spain - expository commissioner and text Syvia Muñoz L’Emergència del Signe,[5] Museo Can Framis, Fundació Vila Casas, Barcelona – Catalonia – Spain "El Cos d’una memòria", Galeria Art Vall, Andorra la Vella – Andorra "Le Nœud", Galerie Saint Cyr, Rouen – France "Cuerpo de una memoria", Galeria Calart Actual, Segovia – Spain "L'au-delà du miroir", Galerie Guislain-États d'Art, Paris – France "Œuvres de 1960 à 1962" et "Souvenirs enfouis", Rétrospective, Galerie Guislain-États d'Art, Paris – France "Traces d'une mémoire", Centre d'Études Catalanes, Paris – France "Exposition", Galerie Guislain-États d'Art, Paris – France "2000 ans de quoi ?