The Borrowers
This set of three works bordering on documentary video addresses the question of self-representation and explores personal identity as a malleable and always fragmentary notion. It also evokes the idea of loss and absence: in the video entitled David, a man who has lost an arm tries to relieve the phantom pain he feels by creating the illusion of his recovered limb through a play of reflections in a mirror. In the other two videos, Ndinda and Anthony, a woman tries to give a speech but can’t stop laughing nervously and a Jimi Hendrix lookalike covers Nina Simone's “Ain't Got No / I Got Life” on guitar. Nicole Miller’s film work invites the viewer into the heart of the creative process as, in the artist's own words, “active viewing can be used as a tool to reconstitute personal histories, or even one’s body.”
Text written by Marianne Tricoire as part of the partnership between the École du Louvre and Lafayette Anticipations – Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin.
Exhibition
Koenig & Clinton, New York (États-Unis)
from 19 Mar to 16 May 2015