Miriam Bäckström: Mirrors

We are very pleased to present Miriam Bäckströms works ‘Mirrors’ in our exhibition space Mellemrummet.The exhibition consists of a series of photographic portraits of different characters, both real and fictive, in combination with mirrors surrounding the individual photographs.

Miriam Bäckström’s works are often characterized by an investigation of the boundaries of the established reality. Her works often place themselves in a conceptual discussion about t the works’ status in our consciousness. In recent years the actor has been a central figure in Bäckström’s artistic practice and has formed the backdrop for a discussion about the meaning of ‘I’ and its relation to concepts such as the role, the character, the figure, and identity as such. 

These concepts are also the point of departure in the ‘Mirror’-series that displays what Bäckström herself coins ‘images of portraits of characters’. In spite of their serial character the works can all be viewed as isolated works. Each portrait concentrates on its individual model and there are different things at stake in each portrait: some portray real persons, other fictive characters, whilst other still displays persons who take on another character than their own. Some of the works put the portrayed in dialogue with their surrounding space whilst we only sense it in others.