mirror mirror mirror

2011 // AARHUS [DK]

Could buildings become an instrument for viewing, solely by their physical relation in space and the cladding of the facade? Somehow they could bend space.

I constructed three mirror animals through their anatomy they would be able to inhabit a wide range of surfaces. Their legs extend through the body, and end in feet suspended from interwoven string, while the mirror face is on a neck joint allowing it to tilt and be held by the upsticking tail. 

The three mirror-animals were placed at the roofs adjacent to my studio, and aligned so that they gave me a view of a door in the next courtyard. I was now able to see who came and went to the library. But on visiting the location I had gained visual access to, I noticed that everyone could now watch me—I had to go back to the studio and work harder, since I was now under constant surveillance.