The Vain Drawing, 2007

360°Anamorphic Drawing, showing side and back views

15" x 15" in.

Rebecca Hackemann’s 360° anamorphic drawings explore cultural and historical ideas surrounding the mirror and it’s reflection, vision and perception. They incorporate the cylindrical mirror as an intrinsic part of their meanings. Using fairy tales, psychoanalytical and historical references such as Alice in Through the Looking Glass (sequel to Alice in Wonderland), Jacques Lacan’s mirror phase and the myths of Narcissus, anamorphic ink drawings are created that have two sides. The viewer walks around the drawing and its cylindrical mirror to see another related drawing opposite on the same piece of paper. In the case of Alice in Wonderland, one side shows her going into the mirror, the other side her coming out of it – the mirror becomes a metaphor for ‘The Looking Glass House’ itself.

This Drawing show a drawing, that is vain, meaning, it is looking back at the viewer. It is in fact a drawing of an anamorph of an eye, anamorphed again. The other side shows the back of the eye, soemthing rarely seen, the place behind which our reflection is in our eyeball. Whta is behind a mirror or behind a reflection is a very interresting question - this is where thinking starts. Teh hare in this image is used here as an art historical reference tool - the har symbolises mischief, indicating that something tricky is occuring!

REBECCA HACKEMANN contact information:

244 5TH AVE #R251, New York, NY 10001, USA

212.561.0944