Mirror Wall, 2007, Steel frames, steel tracking, laminated mirror glass, steel rods, hydraulic and electrical components,250 x 960 x 300 cm
Violette refers to an over-identification with fiction, where fantasy and reality are blurred. Mirror Wall involves a process where 12 tons of pneumatic pressure is applied to steel frames holding 28 mirrors, resulting in plenty of shattered glass -- a frozen gesture of proven allegorical potency. It indexes an unrecognized iconographic phenomenon in contemporary art—reflected figures a pair of asymmetrical figures, usually two three-dimensional forms, that are mirror images of one another.
Violette refers to an over-identification with fiction, where fantasy and reality are blurred. Mirror Wall involves a process where 12 tons of pneumatic pressure is applied to steel frames holding 28 mirrors, resulting in plenty of shattered glass -- a frozen gesture of proven allegorical potency. It indexes an unrecognized iconographic phenomenon in contemporary art—reflected figures a pair of asymmetrical figures, usually two three-dimensional forms, that are mirror images of one another.
Banks Violette( b. 1973) graduated from Columbia University, New York in 2000 and School of the Visual Arts, New York, 1998. Recent exhibitions include solo shows at Maureen Paley, London; Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels ; Galerie Thaddaeu Ropac, Salzburg; Team Gallery, New York, NY. He has been selected for group exhibitions When We Build Let Us Think That We Build Forever at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle; My Sweet Sixteen Party, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels. His works were also shown at The Royal Academy, London and MOMA, New York. He has been awarded Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant 2000.
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