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")