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Work Type:photography
Date of work:1993
Materials:medium: 2 colour photographic prints

Measurements:height: 76 cm
 extent: each

width: 102 cm
 extent: each

Style Period:contemporary art
Subject:mirror, reflection, light
Technique:installation, photography
Description:
'In one image in "Hand/Mirror", a torch beam, enabling the camera/beholder to see, shines on to a hand-held mirror (a shorthand reference to early claims that photography ‘held a mirror up to nature’s face), dazzling both: in the second image, what we see is an eclipse - in effect, a blind spot.'
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Source:“BT New Contemporaries”, exhibition catalogue, London, 1994.
Date of source:1994
Description:
'Ruth Mylius uses photography in a way which is conceptual and almost sculptural. By positioning images to face one another in Hand/Mirror, we are invited to both view and participate in the work and are willingly deceived into believing that a photograph of a mirror has reflective qualities.'
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Source:Swenson, I., “BT New Contemporaries”, exhibition guide, 1994
Date of source:1994