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| Look at what the mirror is saying! |
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| Leonard van Munster puts words made out of mirrors on the walls of public buildings in Ekaterinburg and Moscow. |
In The Mirror Project Dutch artist Leonard van Munster constructs Lacanian mirror-words on the facades of public buildings. "You are looking good!", "I know where you are", and other short phrases encounter the pedestrians as they move along or go into these buildings. This intervention proved to be hugely popular in Ekaterinburg, where it was displayed as part of the Festival of Contemporary Art from The Netherlands.
The text is a mirror, the mirror a text. Both present an image to the viewer that is incomplete and fragmented. As you look onto the words you immediately know to whom they are addressed, because you see your own reflection in the word. But does the word also reflect something that lies beneath your visible surface? And who is speaking to us - the mirror? Or is speaking only mirroring? Why is the image always incomplete? Am I looking at my fragmented self?
The mirror-words will appear at various places in Moscow over the coming week. The first word appeared at the club where van Munster performed with his video project Blind Poetry on Friday October 4th.
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