Mirror Image #57 (Hinge)
The entranceway or threshold is a site bound in myth and superstition. It is a point of crossing, marking the transition between one place and another, or a new beginning.
Hinge is a new work created specifically for Entractes, using the threshold of the building as a framework to consider the nature of spatial boundaries, borders and edges. Operating within its architectural limits, Hinge develops an exchange with the surrounding facade, positioning the glass entrance as both a frame to suspend space, and a barrier separating inside and outside.
The Mirror Image series takes its starting point from negative spaces found in photographic images, using shapes removed from the empty areas surrounding figures and objects to make new photographs, which are cut and reassembled as collages. These amorphous fragments are transformed through layered processes of inversion, concealment and reproduction into hypothetical new forms.
Folding and tucking, pressing, pivoting and supporting, Hinge presents a sequence of interactions connecting the image with the space of the frame. Crossing the boundaries from one form to another through its openings and seams, Hinge reflects a desire to travel through the photographic image, see around its corners and get to the other side.
Entractes is a programme of temporary interventions by international artists using the windows of The Eye Sees gallery, in Arles, France.
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