“Mirror Travels in Neoliberalism” Sam Durant at Praz Delavallade, Paris

The title of the third solo-exhibition by Los Angeles based artist Sam Durant at Praz-Delavallade refers to American artist Robert Smithson’s work Yucatan Mirror Displacements (1969) which was itself a reference to writer John Lloyd Stephen’s book Incidents of Travel in Yucatan (1843). At the forefront in all of his work, the mirror interests Sam Durant because of its potent symbolic charge. Evocative of both reflection and reflexion, a mirror suggests the creation of a perspective leading to an infinite number of interpretations. The viewer finds himself involved in the work, both through the reflected image and his own reflexion process.

All images are courtesy of Praz Delavallade, Paris

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