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When a single actor plays a pair of identical twins, clones, doppelgängers, etc., cinematographers use a technique called the “twinning effect” to make them appear twice (or more) within the same frame. When twinning happens to the gallery space itself, it becomes easy to fall into the mirror’s trap: the gallery, the work, refers only to itself or its image, back and forth eternally:
A1 ←→∞ A2
My only option, then, was to approach the exhibition as a true experiment: to follow through and see what is produced, without prior goals. I noticed, when mirroring the floor plan of the space, that the resulting diagram produced a gap in the negative space near where the twinned galleries met. I allowed this third space to be my guide.
Two-way glass is a kind of mirror where one side is reflective, while the other side appears transparent, like a window. Testing whether a mirror is two-wa…
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When a single actor plays a pair of identical twins, clones, doppelgängers, etc., cinematographers use a technique called the “twinning effect” to make them appear twice (or more) within the same frame. When twinning happens to the gallery space itself, it becomes easy to fall into the mirror’s trap: the gallery, the work, refers only to itself or its image, back and forth eternally:
A1 ←→∞ A2
My only option, then, was to approach the exhibition as a true experiment: to follow through and see what is produced, without prior goals. I noticed, when mirroring the floor plan of the space, that the resulting diagram produced a gap in the negative space near where the twinned galleries met. I allowed this third space to be my guide.
Two-way glass is a kind of mirror where one side is reflective, while the other side appears transparent, like a window. Testing whether a mirror is two-wa…
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