SFAQ // SWIMMING IN SELF REFLECTION
FERMÍN JIMÉNEZ LANDA’S EL NADADOR
The movie poster for the 1968 Burt Lancaster film The Swimmer features a portrait of the star’s face dissolving into a swimming pool wake, and asks in that Vaseline-around-the-edges-soft-focus-dated-movie-poster-way, “When you talk about ‘The Swimmer’ will you talk about yourself?”
Image credit: Fermín Jiménez Landa. “Sicily,” 2013. Sicily model swimming pools, 85 x 45 x 40 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Galería Bacelos. Photo credit: Maj Lindstrom