The provocative three-part project "Black Mirror/Espejo Negro" by
the artist Pedro Lasch encompasses a museum installation,
photographs of the installation, and this bilingual book, including
many of the photos, the artist's statement, and critical
commentaries. The project began as an installation commissioned by
the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University to accompany the
exhibition "El Greco to Velazquez: Art during the Reign of Philip
III." In a gallery adjacent to the exhibit of Spanish Golden Age
masterpieces, Lasch placed black rectangular mirrors on the walls,
each with an image of a Spanish Renaissance painting behind it.
Pre-Columbian stone and ceramic figures, chosen by Lasch from the
museum's permanent collection of Meso-American art, stood on
pedestals facing toward each mirror and away from visitors entering
the room. Viewers were drawn into a meditation on colonialism and
spectatorship when, on looking into the black mirrors, they saw the
pre-Columbian figures, seventeenth and eighteenth-century Spanish
priests and conquistadores, themselves, and the contemporary
gallery environment. The book "Black Mirror/Espejo Negro" includes
full-color reproductions of thirty-nine photographs of the
installation, as well as the text that Lasch wrote to accompany it.
In short essays, scholars reflect on Lasch's work in relation to
current debates in art history and visual studies, race discourse,
pre-Columbian studies, postcolonial theory, and de-colonial
thought.
"Contributors." Srinivas Aravamudan, Jennifer A. Gonzalez, Pedro
Lasch, Arnaud Maillet, Walter Mignolo, Pete Sigal
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