Mirror

4 Jul-16 Aug 2014

Overview

Fiona Banner, Mohamed Bourouissa, Victor Man, Margaux Williamson. Mirror presents the work of four artists, each of whom work within the realm of portraiture and use the device of storytelling as a means of exploring personal identity and collective memory. In the mid 20th century psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan hypothesised that the formation of identity arose primarily in recognition of the reflection as oneself. Exploring the importance of identity, self-reflection and memory, Mirror presents us with a grouping of works of alternative and reinterpreted realities, circumstances or truths. The works in the exhibition combine forms of documentary and fiction, even hinting toward memorialization, to reveal alternatives to our commonly understood lines of history.