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X is not the same as X

Bishop & Reis: Cameron Bishop and Simon Reis

12 Dec 2010 - 8 Jan 2011 · West Space · The West Wing

X is not the same as X is an installation that considers post structural perspectives on identity and inside/outside power relations. It enacts a folding of the outside into the inside, and vice versa. Bishop & Reis entrap the viewer in a 2/3 size room – a slightly distorted replica of a space through which the viewer has recently passed. Inside this shaky interior, behind our own reflection, the viewer devolves into something else, an everyman who in The West Wing is presented as both one and many Santa. To warp a well-known phrase: the white hair follicles of the long beard marks a deterritorialisation of the fur, mouth and snout of the animal.

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