Limonov Art Foundation

LAF will present Alexander Gronsky’s project “It Seems You’ve Seen this Before” (2008–2025). As part of the project, the photographs and videos created over the last twenty years are assembled like a rebus. All its elements (figures in the landscape, houses, words, and letters) swirl around an elusive solution. When it seems to appear, it vanishes again, leaving only the tension of the search. In this space, circular wandering, be it the figure of a skier moving along a tiny patch of snow or a person walking along the perimeter of a garbage mountain, ceases to be a sign of confusion or loss of purpose. Repetition here becomes a gesture that stitches the space, connecting its torn fragments through a mechanical, almost ritual return to the same trajectory. Gradually, a special topology is built, where the difference between “here” and “there”, “now” and “then” ceases to exist. All that remains is the experience of being in this closed movement, where each encounter with the “same” is new, and each step is an aspiration towards an absent center.