In Douglas Gordon’s show at the Gagosian Gallery ‘Self Portraits of You and Me (Bond Girls) the viewer is denied engagement with the subject because all discriminating facial features have been removed by burning. Darbyshire were charged with constructing frames backed with mirrors so that the viewer’s gaze is quite literally reflected back out of the photographs through the holes in the images.

Darbyshire made a series of deep, sprayed black box frames with black fillets and black mounts there by emphasising the mirrored elements.

9 October-18 November 2006

Gagosian Gallery
6-24 Brittannia Street
London WC1

back