Sarah Faux | 11am Mirror Hole

January 17 - February 25, 2018

SARAH FAUX
11am Mirror Hole
January 17 - February 25, 2018
On view 24/7

Our life in this world
is like the image one sees
inside a mirror -
something that's not really there,
but then not really not there.
- Minamoto no Sanetomo (12th Century Japan)

Cuevas Tilleard is excited to present 11am Mirror Hole, a cut-paper piece by Sarah Faux in their 291 Grand Street window. The installation will be on view from January 17 - February 25, 2018.

For a number of years, Faux has considered Japanese shogun poet Minamoto no Sanetomo's words on consciousness; how the commonplace act of looking into a mirror may become the fundamental paradox of life.

11am Mirror Hole responds directly to the street level storefront window of 291 Grand. It riffs on a beauty shop sign. Yet Faux imbues its familiar symbols - hair, comb, hand - with an overwhelming emptiness, "11am mirror hole."

There is a loneliness to each constituent part of the collage; solitary wisp of hair, hollow ear, broken comb, disjointed wrist.

These parts might coalesce for a moment into the image of a hand pushing a blue comb through fleshy pink hair, only to break apart again the very next instant, like a quick glance in the mirror.