Once upon a time, in a land where dreams and reality intertwined, there was a place of magic unlike any other, a place of mystery and boundless beauty and the sky was painted in hues of pink, blue and green by the setting sun.
As an object of physical representation, mirrors have been of great cultural and art historical significance for centuries : from self-contemplation, the image of the soul, to the motif of transience or the transitions of real worlds into magical parallel universes. They allow a variety of imaginary reflections. As a metaphor of reflection, the mirror expands the view of self-knowledge and self-contemplation.
The artist uses the mirrors as a starting point for her artistic practice in order to disturb the narcissistic mirror image and the recognisable space. The view of oneself changes as the Once upon a time mirrors reflect the image differently from the way it really is. The result is an ambivalent perception experiment, alternating between real, virtual or almost surreal images of inside and outside, of moods and states in which past, present and future are reflected.
