Presented at: Festival Miradas de Mujeres: "Shadow Double" Casal Solleric - Palma di Mallorca, ?8.3.2014

The artist plays with her image in a mirror: she appears twice. She wears a dress with a long tail that is in front of her body. The dress is made of a material that is used originally in the Household industry and resembles a bed sheet or oversized tea towel. She sits down with the fabric into a big vessel filled with water (possibly bath) to soak her dress and its long tail. At the end of the room there is a large mirror, there she fastens the end of her long tail on a hook which is put through the mirror the mirror is right against the wall, She pulls the fabric slowly away from the mirror, moving backwards. The train and herself are duplicated in mirror image. The long tail iseems to have the dubble size in the projection. She uses all her power to wring out wet fabric. The reality changes and becomes a space-filling illusion. The artist can be seen two times imitating herself at both ends of the fabric. Both try to wring out the fabric and fold it together until it is folded quite small. Often you wish to have domestic help. It is best if you have four hands to fold fabric like this. Often one feels powerless beeing confronted with such a long fabric. The artist plays with the dimension of the substance and space. The double length of the fabric in the mirror image creates an unreal perspective on reality. The artist exaggerates the everyday life by creating a virtual “Doppelgänger” (Shadow double”), who seems to imitate her. In addition, however, the artist shows a situation in which a lot of women will find themselfes every day. The mirror image is used here as a model of consciousness. Only if women become aware of theirs roles they have a cahnce to also change their role and to reinvent themselves.

hook, light , dress, bath , water, mirror 2mx2m , fixed to the mirror ( 4 pieces , up, down, left and right

40 min

camera : Andreas Dammertz, Casal Solleric Edited by: Branka Pavlovic