Mirror Images
Publisher: Vfmk
Published: 2017
Language: eng; ger
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9783903131880
Subjects: Human figure in art; Art, exhibitions
Description: Mirrors extend our sense of reality by enabling us to observe our own body so they are emblematic of a separation and reconciliation between subject and object, physical and virtual. The theory of mirror neurons postulates that we possess neurons that fire both when we act and also when we see that same action being performed by others. It explains why we are capable of emulating other people's actions, which is an essential activity to the learning process, and why we empathize with members of our community, which helps preserve its cohesion. Thus, as if perspective were inverted, we, ourselves, become other people's mirrors. Exhibition: Kunstmuseum Thun, Switzerland (11.02.-30.04.2017).