Now
Lynda Benglis
1973 · Single-channel digital video, transferred from video tape, color, sound, 12 min. · Photographs
The hyperactive effects of mirrors and mirroring play a key role in Now, in which the artist interacts with a prerecorded image of herself displayed on a television monitor, mimicking her dopplegänger’s words, gestures, and sounds. Everything from the visual and aural static to the high-key, artificial colors and the tight crop, which eliminates almost all evidence of the monitor behind Benglis, conspires to confuse the real and the virtual.
- Artist
- Lynda Benglis
- Date
- 1973
- Medium
- Single-channel digital video, transferred from video tape, color, sound, 12 min.
- Department
- Photographs
- Credit line
- Purchase, Henry Nias Foundation Inc. Gift, 2010
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