KATES-FERRI PROJECTS is pleased to present Permanent Instability, a group exhibition featuring works by Saskia Fleishman (United States), Guillermo García Cruz (Uruguay), and Martín Touzón (Argentina), in New York City, on view from October 9 to November 8, 2025, with a reception on Friday, October 10th from 5-8pm at 561 Grand Street, NYC 10002.

The works in this exhibition take instability as both a subject and a method. Each artist approaches the idea that images and forms never fully settle they flicker, dissolve, or resist completion. This is not a technical accident but a structural condition, an insistence that perception itself is unstable, that representation is always slipping into something else.

Martín Touzón has long been fascinated by transitions and processes. Touzón’s sculptures embody a kind of restless circuitry. Gas, glass, and electricity are constantly transforming. What you encounter isn’t just sculpture or light, but a record of a process, the translation of a hand-drawn sketch into a fragile glass tube. Each piece, or each tube, has the peculiarity that even when switched off, the glass has its own color. This makes the material of the sculpture’s inseparable from their glow. The glass, a conduit for electricity and gas, is tinted to reflect the color of the light we see. An opaque black connector interrupts the luminous flow. This pause, this opacity, paradoxically makes the unseen connection more tangible and evident. 

Guillermo García Cruz translates the instability of digital screens into the fixity of paint. His surfaces are not smooth; they tremble. Parallel lines fracture and bend, mirrored segments vibrate across the frames. He captures the accident, the error, the technical slip that usually vanishes as soon as it appears. You see the persistence of a glitch, held in suspension, turned into a surface that pulses between stasis and motion. It’s as if darkness suddenly flares open and we are thrown into the brightness of a screen, only to notice the system faltering underneath. García Cruz makes possible a state between permanence and instability, where painting holds the tension of digital disruption.

Saskia Fleishman approaches the landscape as a mutable plane rather than a fixed image. From a distance, her paintings promise recognition: a horizon, a stretch of sky, a familiar scene. Yet as you approach, solidity gives way. Sand and pigment push forward, and interruptions scatter the image into something both familiar and estranged. The landscape is always on the verge of breaking apart into abstraction, a zone where figuration can’t hold. This produces an atmosphere of simultaneity, where the works become not only visual spaces but also sites for projection, where the viewer’s memories and sensations leak in and alter what is seen.

To sit with these works is to realize how little ever stays fixed. They slip between clarity and uncertainty, between what can be held onto and what recedes. The exhibition articulates a deliberate refusal to settle, a determination to make instability and transformation visible. Permanent Instability invites us to accept that permanence is an illusion, and that what endures is the vibration itself, the quiet and subtle movement through which things shift, unravel, and take new form.

Text by: Micaela Vindman

About the artists:

Martín Touzón (1985, Argentina) Born just after the fall of the Argentine dictatorship, he grew up in a fragile new democracy plagued by economic crisis and hyperinflation. His personal motivations led him to study economics and then to take part in the UTDT Artists Program. His education is not just focused on a formal institutional level, it was also nourished by working with other artists in their projects and exhibitions. Since then, his work has addressed the crossroads between art and economics through processes that involve media such as sculpture, installation, performance, and painting to question aspects of today's society.

Touzón has exhibited individually and in group shows, also made large scale sculptures and performances as public space interventions. In addition, he participated in residencies at The Banff Center (CA) and in Torino (IT) as a prize winner for the Premio Italia - Argentina per l'Arte. Among others, he is a recipient of the Creation Grant by the Metropolitan Fund for Culture, Arts and Science, the Patronage of the City of Buenos Aires and the Bicentennial Grant of the National Endowment for the Arts. His work is in the public collection of La Rural (AR) and in other international private collections.

Guillermo Garcia Cruz: (1988, Montevideo, Uruguay). Professor of Visual Arts by IPA, Montevideo, Uruguay. He has been part of Washington Studio School and Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, Washington, USA. His work has been presented at group and solo exhibitions in Montevideo, Sao Paulo, Lima, Buenos Aires, Mexico, Miami, Washington DC, New York, Madrid, Barcelona, Timisioara, Lisbon and Tianjin. Among other articles and mentions, in 2019 he has been highlighted globally among the 12 artists in the focus of the next generation, by the Ibero-American site Arte Informado. He currently lives and works in the city of Dubai, UAE, developing an interdisciplinary body of work, made of painting, photography, action, and installation, exploring a contemporary approach to the geometric question and the different conceptual interpretations that stem from its formal disruption.

Saskia Fleishman (1995, Baltimore, MD), graduated Rhode Island School of Design in 2017 with a B.F.A. in painting. She has been an artist in residence at The Jentel Foundation, Tongue River Artist Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Wassaic Project, PADA Studios, ChaNorth and Trestle Studios, and a curator in residence at Otis College of Art and Design. Saskia has had recent solo exhibitions at Kates-Ferri Projects (New York, NY), Galleri Urbane (Dallas, TX), Red Arrow (Nashville, TN) and Pentimenti Gallery (Philadelphia, PA). Saskia’s work has also been included in group shows at Baker—Hall (Miami, FL), David B. Smith Gallery (Denver, CO), Dinner Gallery (New York, NY), Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery (Berlin, DE), Goucher College (Baltimore, MD), Peep Projects (Philadelphia, PA), and The Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington (VA), among others. Her work has been featured in Visual Art Source, The Denver Post, Make Magazine, ArtMaze, Root Quarterly, Friend of the Artists, and Galerie Magazine. Saskia is based in Philadelphia, PA. 

Available Art Work from Exhibition 

Video of exhibition on YouTube