The works reveal a process of deconstruction, fragmentation, multiplication and mise en
abyme in a rigorously ordered reconstruction.
Not exact matches
The staging is so endlessly, even incestuously, self - referential as to earn the epithet mise - en -
abyme, a term derived from what happens when you place two mirrors opposite each other, producing an infinite reflection, as
in the famous hallway shot from Welles's Citizen Kane.
And if you feel like you're losing your way
in a mise - en -
abyme of endless mediation, rest assured that you're not lost at all.
This chimerical quality — this defiance — is what attracted Woolford to the performance
in the first place, but her reenactment pushes the mise en
abyme even further.
Similarly, Q (2017) directly meets our gaze while an image of Biggie Smalls on his sweatshirt poses
in a playful mise en
abyme.
There, Dorion made use of installation as a device for presenting his painting, as can be seen
in the mise en
abyme observed
in the work Chambre à coucher, 1999.
But unlike Judd's heavy metals, the glass creates a kind of hall of mirrors effect, a mise - en -
abyme, or an infinitesimal non-space
in the room's core, which upon approach, makes one feel like they've fallen
in, disintegrated, and become a part of the installation.
Through this dialogue, Titled 2011 considers the uncertainty produced by the repeated resuscitation of history
in Weiss's play — a mise en
abyme first staged
in 1963, set
in 1808 and encapsulating an interior play taking place
in 1793 — and its radically politicized mediation of chronology.
From this point on, space and its pictorial representation were steadily investigated
in Hockney's artistic practice, his canvas Looking at Pictures on a Screen (1977) is a brilliant mise en
abyme were the spectator observes an inner spectator observing paintings from diverse artists like Vermeer, Van Gogh and Piero della Francesca.
Kennedy Cutler's recursive physical production, a mise en
abyme practice that borrows from, but stands formally
in opposition to, digital space, poses some germane questions for twenty - first century artists.