Ghosts in the Mirror




presented at the project
Art need space / Kunst braucht Fläche
21/22 July 2012
Mauerpark, Berlin

2mx5m print on advertisemenbillboards

A huge printed poster (5x2 meters ) shows the street and what is on it. It looks like a mirror reflecting the street. We also see a person standing in the middle of this picture .

In front of this "mirror", the exact person stands in real with the same pose, it looks like a real mirror.

The passengers don't reflect anything, we don't see their images. 


The title "Ghosts in the Mirror", means the one standing in front is a person with flesh, and the others who don't reflect, are ghosts. I want to bring the quotidian gesture "look at the mirror", to the question, "where am I?" "why don't I see myself?" "am I dead?", as well to bring the awareness that we are used to seeing self a lot, and pay less attention to the others. What happens when we take a break from looking at our egos and give attention to whoever needs?












photos : Yun-ting Hung


photo : Kiriko Otani