MIRROR MIRROR MIRROR

MIRROR MIRROR is an exhibition project that arises from the popular question: Who is the most beautiful in the kingdom?

MIRROR MIRROR is an exhibition by Est_Art Space that talks about how we see ourselves and how today's society forces us to show ourselves. The phrase from the fairy tale, in which the wicked witch asks the mirror, "Who is the fairest in the kingdom?" has become a daily imposition in 21st century society, loaded with falsehood and pressure.

The "mirror effect" in psychology is attributed to the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, interested in analyzing the identification of our own image and the formation of self-concept. A research that focused on working groups composed of babies between 6 and 18 months, where it is discovered that they like their own image and that this generates a well-being, but that such recognition is based on the comparison with the visual model of their caregivers.

Therefore, the "mirror effect" would extend to social and interpersonal relations. In Freud the ego is just that: a superposition of imaginary identifications. From all this Lacan deduces: "that first identification before the mirror is key to the formation of the ego, and is literally the origin and founder of the series of identifications that will follow and will constitute the ego of the human being". "That is the matrix of the ideal self; and: that is never reached, that place behind the mirror where everything goes well can only be reached, at most, asymptotically".

An ideal self that has become, with the vortex of social networks, the goal to be shown, at a time when the image that the mirror gives us back is a distortion filtered in order to please, catch, and convince a legion of strangers that our life is an accumulation of perfect situations and experiences. The real mirror, the one that gives us back our image without any concealment, has passed to a better life. Our reflection has changed radically in this century.