Fermín Jiménez Landa proposes a group of small interventions with the idea of exploring the notion of home, seeking to scrutinize the public dimension of the domestic, as well as the possibilities of touching, of meeting, of winking from the isolated. It can be a look from a balcony, a knock on a wall, a discrete meeting with neighbours or friends, a conversation with the plumber, the smell of fried food, the sound of a bad song or disturbing screams that affect us even if they are not addressed to us. Invisible but perceptible elements, air currents that filter through the cracks, common airs, domestic spaces that are not so quarantined.
The intention is to weave ubiquity into singularity, the political by repetition of the domestic. We work in the contiguous, the adjoining, with the walls, corners, baseboards, edges, sofas and mirrors in times of quarantines, gentrification, airbnb, uber, mass tourism and forced migrations.
Making performances, public interventions or installations, Fermín Jiménez Landa works in equivalence, inversion and interchange processes that makes us see reality from an equidistant point between absurd and prudent, moving and iconoclastic, empirical and unverifiable. His work has been shown in MANIFESTA 11, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, CA2M, MAZ, Artium, 1646, La Casa Encendida, MUSAC, Travesía Cuatro, and Nogueras Blanchard.
The Institute for Endotic Research (TIER) / Donaustr. 84, Berlin-Neukölln
The Institute for Endotic Research
FERMÍN JIMÉNEZ LANDA (ferminjimenezlanda.blogspot.com)
Image: Fermín Jiménez Landa