The Mirror Effect

Head On Photo Festival 2010

Group show

This event has concluded

Dates: 29 Apr 2010 - 04 Jun 2010

Location: Australian Centre for Photography 257 Oxford St Paddington Sydney NSW 2021 Australia

Hours: Tue-Fri 10.00am - 7.00pm, Sat & Sun 10.00am - 6.00pm

Entry Fee: Free, donations welcome

Since Narcissus we have been both captivated and tormented by our reflected image. Mirrors give us access to an interior world where it is sometimes difficult to distinguish between the civilising effects of ‘self-awareness’ and the dark vortex of ‘self-obsession’.

In The Mirror Effect, Natalie Bookchin (USA), Adad Hannah (Canada), Sally Rees (TAS) and Torben Sko (ACT) playfully explore the way mirrors work and what they mean to us in the modern world. Embracing old-fashioned optical trickery as well as state of the art technology, this exhibition is a hall of mirrors in which our anxieties as well as our aspirations are reflected back at us.