Masaki Fujihata
»Unreflective Mirror«
2005 - 2006
Documents
Description
Surveillance camera, surveillance video monitor, custom-made polarized filter glasses, PC, data projector x 2 This virtual mirror effectively erases the presence of the spectator, manipulating and questioning notions of identity and corporeality. The viewer, donning a pair of special glasses, finds that the mirror reflects only these glasses, which move in accordance with the wearer. He is at once present and invisible, able to interact in the piece only through the effacement of his own body. At the same time, the placement of a video camera captures and relays the image of this viewer onto a monitor behind him, which is simultaneously reflected in the virtual mirror. The processing of the individual's image by the mirror and the camera therefore produces different effects, complicating the spectator's sense of self-perception. (Kathy Rae Huffman, Exhibition Guide "The Conquest of Imperfection")