an old black and white photo of two women in front of a mirror with the caption all is beauty
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All is Vanity (Mirrorless Version)

Installation view at BMO project Room, Toronto, 2009 In All Is Vanity (Mirrorless Version) Adad Hannah stages a historical drawing as a video. The artist asks a pair of identical twins to perform a tableau vivant in order to render a mirror where there is none, creating an illusion within an illusion. The source of inspiration for Hannah’s installation is an image made in 1892 by an eighteen-year-old illustrator named Charles Allan Gilbert (1873-1929). Gilbert’s drawing, entitled All Is…

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