Mobile Mirrors

Mobile Mirrors, 2013 Performance at Manila shopping mall, Philippines The performance Mobil Mirrors is a performance with one or more mannequins, all clad in a mosaic of mirror shards. The sculptures of this performance are called Outer Reflection #1-4. The mirrors are fragmentized, scattered all over the body. Usually one looks into the mirror. In this case the person inside (the mobile mirror suit) can only mirror others and partially its environment, but never itself. In a Shopping Mall context the Mobile Mirrors reflect on consumarism, In Manila the shopping mall functions as social platform and has it is own culture. The Mobile Mirrors has been performed at: Kulturens Hus, Luleå, British Council Cairo, 2012. The Market Market, Shopping Mall, Manila Gallery Christian Larsen, Stockholm Café Dancers, Dance –and Performance programme, Nada Art Fair, New York City, 2013. Kuben and Shopping Centre, Horsens – a project by Horsens Kunstmuseum and Mærk Byen And it will be performed at Sculpture Parc, Ordrupgaard, Copenhagen, 2014. Emil Bertz: Conversely, the mannequin is globally accepted as an essential part of today’s retail industry. Wherever we go, its appearance and purpose remain the same. We use the mannequin as a surface onto which we project our own selves, while at the same time we internalize the beauty ideals it represents. We become it – it becomes us. Cuenca Rasmussen’s sculptures construct a poetic and at the same time pointed criticism of this relationship between object and beholder/consumer. The mirror surfaces of the mannequins turn our gaze back onto ourselves, forcing us to become aware of our own bodies and consumption habits. This way revealed, we can see ourselves as part of a much larger system, as complex and chaotic as ever the sculptures’ reflections on the walls.