Distorted Self-Portrait in Polished Metal, Museum Gallery

5 October 2017 · Paris

A large polished metal panel dominates a gallery wall, its surface warped enough to pull the room apart. The photographer's reflection sits near centre — recognisable but fractured, the surrounding framed works dissolved into smears of warm tone and white. Overhead light blows out at the top edge, a hard flare against the otherwise cool grey of the museum interior. The surface shows the gallery and refuses to represent it accurately; that tension is the whole point.