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Pair of 18th century mercury ice paintings,
Framed in green patina wood.
Our interpretation:
Mirror in art or a game of conscience...
Since the 15th century, the mirror has been the judge of painting, the plane mirror organizing our gaze.
These mirror-paintings attempt to direct our senses in a vertigo-like derealization of the world and depersonalization of the subject...
By seeing himself, the viewer is no longer only in relation with himself, but possibly opens his consciousness to an intrinsic relationship between body, space, light, time and his own nature.
Just reflection or not...
Reference: Rembrandt
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