Doppel is a project composed of a serialized artist’s book (11+1 A.P.) and an exhibition in the form of a small collection, which works around the value of the found object, the acto of taking a walk, and the inframince perception of the environment.

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…for Jan, the physical experience of walking is an activity that exemplifies the dissolution between the realms of artistic work and personal life. The attitude of the walker is that of an observer who engages with what the environment offers. In The Walk, Robert Walser begins: “He declared that one fine morning, I no longer remember exactly what time, since I felt like going for a walk […] The morning world that spread out before my eyes seemed to me as beautiful as if I were seeing it for the first time.” He then narrates the everyday encounters that walking outside provides, until it ends with his decision to return home. Jan is above all that flâneur; his concerns arise from his context, from which he extracts seemingly irrelevant details—the only ones that determine a direction without goals, nullifying the hyperactivity, hyperproduction, and consumerist attitude of the street-level citizen, of whom we often grow suspicious simply for standing still a moment or suddenly changing direction.

Mario Guixeras.

2025