The One Minutes Series: ‘Mirroring’
International Touring
2024 - 2025
‘Mirroring’ curated by Seda Yıldırım, Werkplaats Typografie, features 14
one-minute videos exploring the fascinating phenomenon of mirroring.
‘Mirroring’ will premiere on Liberation Day, 5 May at noon at De Uitkijk in Amsterdam (NL), followed by ‘Meshes of the Afternoon’ (1943) by Maya Deren and Alexandr Hackenschmied. David Lynch’s ‘Lost Highway’ pays homage to this film. Afterwards, a simple soup made by De Sering will be served, following the recipe of Gaza Soup Kitchen. This programme is a collaboration with Mirror Soup Kitchen. It’s free of charge. All donation will go to Soma, an activist performance artist collective from Lviv, Ukraine.
‘Mirroring’ will premiere on Liberation Day, 5 May at noon at De Uitkijk in Amsterdam (NL), followed by ‘Meshes of the Afternoon’ (1943) by Maya Deren and Alexandr Hackenschmied. David Lynch’s ‘Lost Highway’ pays homage to this film. Afterwards, a simple soup made by De Sering will be served, following the recipe of Gaza Soup Kitchen. This programme is a collaboration with Mirror Soup Kitchen. It’s free of charge. All donation will go to Soma, an activist performance artist collective from Lviv, Ukraine.
‘Mirroring’ will embark on a global tour, with locations to be published on
our website in the coming weeks. For those unable to attend in person,
online participation will be available in June.
We mirror. “Not to convey the pure essence of the thing. It sinks the thing into the life of the storyteller in order to bring it out of them again. Thus traces of the storyteller cling to the story the way the fingerprints of the potter cling to the clay vessel.” said Walter Benjamin. Just like that, in this curation, each video becomes a surface, reflecting traces of the storyteller. Acts like a mirror that’s aware of the silence of things you speak so as to see and to be seen.
Mirroring here is not merely a reflection; it is an active engagement, a mutual recognition where experiences and stories intertwine. This interaction bridges the gaps between us. The mirror, in this context, is far from passive; it speaks, it distorts, it transforms. And gazing at this mirror is not for the purpose of seeing what is visible; that is to say, if what I see is limited by the width of this mirror, I might. This beckons us to recognize our limits and the profound necessity of understanding in the human experience, reminding us that in seeing each other, we too are seen.
We mirror. “Not to convey the pure essence of the thing. It sinks the thing into the life of the storyteller in order to bring it out of them again. Thus traces of the storyteller cling to the story the way the fingerprints of the potter cling to the clay vessel.” said Walter Benjamin. Just like that, in this curation, each video becomes a surface, reflecting traces of the storyteller. Acts like a mirror that’s aware of the silence of things you speak so as to see and to be seen.
Mirroring here is not merely a reflection; it is an active engagement, a mutual recognition where experiences and stories intertwine. This interaction bridges the gaps between us. The mirror, in this context, is far from passive; it speaks, it distorts, it transforms. And gazing at this mirror is not for the purpose of seeing what is visible; that is to say, if what I see is limited by the width of this mirror, I might. This beckons us to recognize our limits and the profound necessity of understanding in the human experience, reminding us that in seeing each other, we too are seen.
This series is a collaboration with Mirror Soup Kitchen and was made
possible with the support of het Cultuurfonds, Pictoright Fund and the City
of Amsterdam.
Press folder: http://u.pc.cd/zK6ctalK
Press folder: http://u.pc.cd/zK6ctalK