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Artist Statement for Lisa Jacoby
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I can remember when I believed the mirror’s reflection was a world that I couldn’t get to, existing just beyond the glass. Of course, I now know that reflection is, and always was, an illusion. But this begs the question of what other illusions do I believe to be reality at this point in time?
My photographic work seeks to investigate the idea that the appearance of what we see as “reality” is malleable and constantly shifting. I try to depict the unfamiliar as formed by reflections: in this sense, my subject is not the person depicted but the images as they represent points of view. Reflections allow the camera, a single point perspective tool, to see from multiple viewpoints at once, thus potentially destabilizing the viewer’s personal sense of visual authority or any fixed sense of “point of view”. The presence of multiple visual channels can challenge assumptions about perspective, both journalistic and personal; it can even argue that the camera’s truest marker is not image but time. By marking a specific moment, the camera allows the opportunity to take “point of view” itself as a vehicle for content and contemplation.
-Lisa Jacoby
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