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  • Cornelia Parker, Alter Ego (Under Water), 2018

    Cornelia Parker

    Alter Ego (Under Water), 2018
    Two silver-plated objects, one flattened by a 250 ton press, suspended on metal wire
    18 x 17 x 32 cm
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    Parker's Alter Ego (Under Water) is from an ongoing series of pairs of silver-plated objects, one intact and one flattened. Sometimes their reflection is a double, at other times it...
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    Parker's Alter Ego (Under Water) is from an ongoing series of pairs of silver-plated objects, one intact and one flattened. Sometimes their reflection is a double, at other times it may be a near relative. Thoughts of identity crises and class divides abound, as well as ideas of life and death, inhaling and exhaling, conscious and unconscious, reflection and shadow. At times there is a sense of a dark psychological undertow, an underlying threat; at other times, just reflected glory.

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