A MIRROR OF SIMPLE SOULS - IN||COLOR
A Mirror of Simple Souls In||Color is a video and projected light installation.
A Mirror of Simple
Souls is a video and projected
light installation. The title of the work is drawn from the 14th
century mystical text of Marguerite de Porète. This work emerged from a study
of the writings of multiple female medieval mystics and is centered around the
thesis that women who were personally able to write their own accounts of their
own mystical experiences, focused on the body as a means to access and express
interiority and endeavor towards a unity with the divine. In contrast, texts
authored by male confessors about female experiences, saw the body as unholy
and threatening and thereby rejected it. A Mirror of Simple Souls implicates and revels in the body. The projected video features a shadow figure
encountering itself in a world of refracted light. At the same time, viewers’
shadows are projected onto and implicated within the projection surface,
inviting a sense of wonder.
ShapeShifter Lab
Brooklyn, New York
A Mirror of Simple Souls is a video and projected light installation. The title of the work is drawn from the 14th century mystical text of Marguerite de Porète. This work emerged from a study of the writings of multiple female medieval mystics and is centered around the thesis that women who were personally able to write their own accounts of their own mystical experiences, focused on the body as a means to access and express interiority and endeavor towards a unity with the divine. In contrast, texts authored by male confessors about female experiences, saw the body as unholy and threatening and thereby rejected it. A Mirror of Simple Souls implicates and revels in the body. The projected video features a shadow figure encountering itself in a world of refracted light. At the same time, viewers’ shadows are projected onto and implicated within the projection surface, inviting a sense of wonder.
Center for Performance Research
sKIN
Brooklyn, New York
