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Mentre passa la festa is a photographic exhibition by Javier Hortelano on view at Fnac San Agustín until April. The series brings together street-level images that move between photojournalism and social documentary, focusing not on the Fallas themselves as spectacle, but on the quieter moments that surround them. Hortelano looks at what happens when the celebration pauses: people resting, musicians preparing, falleras sheltering from the weather, and residents watching from balconies. The exhibition offers a restrained view of a collective ritual, highlighting the gestures, pauses, and everyday scenes that give the festival its human and communal dimension.