Gretchen Skogerson & Garth Zeglin
Boston, MA/
Pittsburgh, PA
installation
Confined Reflections (detail), 2005–06, custom electronics, aluminum, three 26" acrylic dome mirrors, Lent by the Artists
As an artist team, Skogerson and Zeglin use robotics technology to address sculptural and cinematic issues. Their latest interactive project Confined Reflections involves convex mirrors that call out to visitors and then relay stories of personal imprisonment while virtually ‘imprisoning’ a viewer through its fish-eye reflection.
"Confined Reflections is an installation that explores questions of isolation and confinement. It is composed of wall-hung security mirrors that literally 'speak' to visitors. Each mirror tells tales of confinement; they are secret and confessed anonymously. Viewers looking into the dome-shaped mirrors see their own image amidst a distorted version of the space surrounding them. Subverting the mirrors' normal use by hanging them at eye-level and replacing cameras with speakers, we intend an unexpected but visceral connection between narratives of psychological confinement and the reflection of the viewer in the mirror." —Gretchen Skogerson and Garth Zeglin
Please join the artist for a Gallery Talk on Saturday, May 13, 2006, at 3 pm.
