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MIRROR, MIRROR

As Florentina Holzinger devised her own Divine Comedy, at Kunsthalle, Tscherner also creates an alternative story about the great Narcissus. Compared to Holzingers’s work, the performance is also based on a narrative story, mythological background: Mirror, mirror concept based on the fairy tale of Snow White, and on the Greek myth of Narcissus, both stories connected with mirrors and virtual images. Narcissus in this way conducts a concentrate of his own virtual image, as it refers back to his role in Greek mythology where he eventually falls in love with his own reflection in a pool of water, staring at it for the remainder of his life.

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