La primera vez era ya una repetición (Even the first time was a repetition)
Florit / Florit•Sep 20, 2025 — Nov 14, 2025
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What slips past us in daily life can, on closer inspection, open into something altogether different. For Fermín Jiménez Landa, this act of looking again is not a minor adjustment but the very core of his practice. La primera vez era ya una repetición (Even the First Time Was a Repetition) unfolds subtle ruptures in the everyday: actions that echo and shift, objects that refuse to be what they first appear. His works are less finished artefacts than fragments of ongoing processes—materials shaped through friction with the world, gestures and walks that loop back on themselves in order to reframe reality.
On a slightly dysfunctional railing (Pretexto para un retraso, 2025), the artist’s own watch is tied in place, inaccessible for the duration of the exhibition. It lags eight minutes and twenty seconds behind—the precise time it takes sunlight to travel to Earth.
Models of swimming pools (El Nadador, 2013) recall a project in which...More
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La primera vez era ya una repetición (Even the first time was a repetition)
Florit / Florit•Sep 20, 2025 — Nov 14, 2025
Press Release
What slips past us in daily life can, on closer inspection, open into something altogether different. For Fermín Jiménez Landa, this act of looking again is not a minor adjustment but the very core of his practice. La primera vez era ya una repetición (Even the First Time Was a Repetition) unfolds subtle ruptures in the everyday: actions that echo and shift, objects that refuse to be what they first appear. His works are less finished artefacts than fragments of ongoing processes—materials shaped through friction with the world, gestures and walks that loop back on themselves in order to reframe reality.
On a slightly dysfunctional railing (Pretexto para un retraso, 2025), the artist’s own watch is tied in place, inaccessible for the duration of the exhibition. It lags eight minutes and twenty seconds behind—the precise time it takes sunlight to travel to Earth.
Models of swimming pools (El Nadador, 2013) recall a project in which...More
