Provenance

Platon’s Mirror No. 15 is the last edition of the large series based on Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, one of the most influential texts in European literature. In it, the distinction between two forms of reality is formulated: the visible reality and the (true) reality of ideas. The series represents what would remain hidden to the naked eye if not seen and documented by an author or artist: through apparent randomness, anthropological traces emerge on the technical surface of the mirror foils, allowing the real space to be recognized and observed through folds as if through a mirror. In the accompanying video recordings, from which the stills originate, these traces, due to the movement of people in space, are ephemeral and almost impossible to assign. In Platon’s Mirror, a framed snapshot of movement is created, which, thanks to the technology of direct printing on aluminum dibond, gives viewers the opportunity to retrace their own movements in front of the “mirror”.