I’ll Be Your Mirror: Candice Breitz at the Toronto Film Festival

Candice Breitz focused on Robert Rauchenberg's work for her current exhibition. The theme was about twins and their ties with each other. Robert placed an ad on Craigslist to interview them and ended up putting their photos on matching monitors that were sitting right beside each other. He interviewed them each separately asking them almost the same questions. After both interviews, he altered their words and discussions in a way that would bring out the similarities and differences between the two of them. He did this with other sets of twins also.

In my opinion, I think the idea of researching more about twins is good. However, altering conversations to make things seem like something they are not is wrong and misleading. Twins are people and should be treated like everyone else. There is no harm in showing more interest in them as long as it is done in an appropriate and fair way.

Project #1

For my first series of photos, I chose to use the same picture of a mother and daughter for all three of the photos. In the first photo, I decided to cut out the girl and replace her with her writing what she said about her mother. I feel like taking her out is showing how a mom and their teenage daughter often fight a lot and disagree on many things. It shows her absent mind in the situation and how her mother could basically be talking to a wall. In the second photo I chose to take the mother out and replace her with what she was saying to her daughter. I felt that this symbolized her absense in the daughters mind because everything she said was being ignored. In the third photo I took them both out to show that they were each in their own world. I replaced them with the writings that they were saying to each other; however, this time it was a line from each of them to show that their words clashed and weren't communicated properly to each other.

In the second series of photos, I chose to take pictures of traffic on the road and delete the lines on the road. I did this to symbolize that sometimes in life, we don't always have guidance; however, we use knowledge from our past experiences to guide us without having things written for us all the time.

Louise Lawler

Louise Lawler is known for photographing different pieces of artwork as they are displayed. In this photograph, she showed how a piece of work by Warhol was displayed over a television set in a living room that is also surrounded by different modern art pieces. Her purpose is to show how "the installation of artwork is never neutral." This was dicussed in Jerry Saltz's article entitled, "The Art World's Space Invader."

When I first looked at this picture, I didn't really notice the piece by Warhol. The modern art popped out at me first and then the fact that the room looked split. It wasn't until I read the article that I realized that the focus was on the "random" Warhol artwork that was displayed on the wall. After I saw that, I saw things differently. People have very different interpretations of things when they are first looked at. I saw a connection between this and my personality. I do not only have one style. I like a variety of things and sometimes I like to mix them together. The only particular reason that the art on the left stood out to me more was mainly because of its color.


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