Portraits

 A mysterious palace of mirrors

An exhibition where the whole family can reflect on their identity and image in an entertaining and poetic way, guided by a series of optical experiments.
Are we all really so different? Am I as tall and thin as that? Am I as short and fat as that? Am I that round? Am I infinite? Am I someone else? Is there more than one of me? Is that really my shadow? This exhibition questions images in general and our own self-image in particular.

Games exploring the principles of optics and giving different views of ourselves:

• concave mirrors: Am I as tall and thin as that?
• convex mirrors: Am I as short and fat as that?
• concave and convex hemispherical mirrors: Am I that round?
• the infinite in a mirror (an arrangement giving infinite reflections): Am I infinite?
• the "mirror without you" (an arrangement of colourless mirrors): Am I someone else?
• the "thousand faces" (a hemisphere covered with little mirrors): Is there more than one of me?
• the "magnifying glass" (a giant biconvex magnifying glass filled with water, like the first magnifying glasses): Is this still a face?
• the "head in the painting" (playing a role while looking in a mirror): Is it still me?
• the "conformator" (the imprint of your face in a forest of wooden pins): Seeing yourself in 3D?
• the "photosensitive wall": an ephemeral shadow on the wall, similar to a camera. Is that really my shadow?