Doppelgänger Sculpture

Video Installation 9 minutes 12 seconds Monochrome Videotape 1/2 inch EIAJ Format Edition of 5, supplied with original video monitor, and plinth specification and playback apparatus in digital format. Plays on a continuous loop. Doppelgänger was made during a two-year artist’s residency at South Hill Park Art Centre. Since its recovery and restoration it has been widely exhibited as an installation work: DCA Dundee, November 2012; Careof/DOCVA, Milan, Italy, 2012; Contemporary Art from Scotland, Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum 17 December 2016. Essay by Dr Laura Leuzzi on the video work Doppelgänger Doppelgänger is a video performance in which Shemilt manipulates her body and her image into creating a phantasmal double of herself. The piece begins with a close up of the face of Shemilt in front of the camera. The mirror reflects her applying make-up to her face with very dry, precise gestures. During these actions two sound tracks can be heard: they are records of two psychological analysis on schizophrenia, evoking a double personality. At some point, the performance is suddenly interrupted by another image, showing the face of the artist. Then the action goes back to what we could call the ‘mirror scene’. At that point she drops the concealer and takes a dark drawing pen: and like on canvas, evoking the traditional image and position of the painter, and the use of mirror in self-portraits, she begins to draw on the mirror in front of her. At the end of the performance other images of the body and the face of the artist with the overlapping layers of other body/face images appear, which evoke once more, a multifaceted personality. Finally we get back to the mirror tableaux and the artist has gone: the doppelgänger has taken her place. link to video on Vimeo https://vimeo.com/115278830

Sculpture:Video on Other

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:29.5 W x 66.9 H x 29.5 D in

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