DOCUMENTS OF SELF
Marie Kølbæk Iversen
With the xeroxed montage-series DOCUMENTS OF SELF, Marie Kølbæk Iversen points towards the different levels of materiality at play in a work of art: the physical object – the medium through which the work is formulated – and the virtual object, which is the motif, and thus the focal point of the work.
The series, DOCUMENTS OF SELF, consists of a line of copies and scans of mirrors that lose their function – to mirror the spectator – through the process of being photocopied.
In stead, what is mirrored is the process of scanning as well as the mere surfaces of the photocopier and the copied mirror.
In this way the two elements, the machine and the mirror, come to reflect each other, whereby both are highlighted as materials in themselves – as autonomous objects.
The two montages exhibited at atelier atelier specifically document the two mirrors mounted at the gallery's toilet. The mirrors were taken down and brought to the nearest copy shop, where they were then scanned and copied. Then, the many pieces of A3-sized paper necessary for covering a mirror's surface were gathered in a montage focusing the piece on its virtual object/the motif: an empty mirror.
