Size:
W 77 cm x ø 39 cm x H 111 cm
Material:
As humans, our mirror image has been central to the way we gradually gain self-awareness; how we differentiate between the “self” and the “other” and, as a result, how we project ourselves onto the story of our lives - some of the principal factors of our individual and collective evolution. We observe our reflection in the looking glass from a unique vantage point that is ours alone. We are so accustomed to our reflected image that our brain applies automatic adjustments to the reflection we see and inadvertently creating an idealised render in our minds, an imago. This causes the paradox between how humans see themselves and how others perceive them. In times when self-awareness, self-preoccupation, and the importance of appearance are ever increasing and ever more central to our everyday existence, this object addresses this paradox by disrupting, if only momentarily, our sense of self and questions the protocol of our perception.