The Mirror Blinked is a collaborative body of work
produced by artists Henry Gepfer and K. MacNeil. Both artists work at
the intersection of print media and performance art as a means to
explore interpersonal communication, miscommunication, and the
intersubjectivity of relationships.
The Mirror Blinked
documents an abstract performance between the artists, in which they
stand on opposite sides of a hanging sheet of acrylic thickly coated in
ink. As they use their hands and bodies to remove the ink, they endeavor
to find, track, and mirror each other’s movements. In trying to
connect, missing, and connecting again, this performance illustrates the
dance of attempting to find each other through an opaque medium and the
struggle to maintain connection.
The resulting prints represent a
push and pull—of losing and finding—between two people having a
conversation through a visual, performative language. Intertwining
performance, animation, and monotype prints, The Mirror Blinked examines moments of symmetry, synchronicity, and communicative lapses between two people.
This
work also serves as a reflection of the collaboration between the
artists. Working together as friends with similar approaches, Gepfer and
MacNeil explore the nature of their identities and “the face of the
other” throughout this exhibition. The resulting uncanny impressions
serve as a map of two artists working with—and literally against—each
other.
