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Desplazamiento de la memoria (Memory Shift) from the Black Mirror Series
Desplazamiento de la memoria (Memory Shift) from the Black Mirror Series
© Pedro Lasch

Desplazamiento de la memoria (Memory Shift) from the Black Mirror Series

Artist (Born in Mexico City, Mexico, 1975)
Date2008
MediumCibachrome print
DimensionsImage: 50 1/8 x 24 7/8 x 1/4 inches (127.3 x 63.2 x 0.6 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineAnonymous gift in memory of Anne Schroder
Object number2011.11.1
Collections
  • PHOTOGRAPHY
  • ART OF THE UNITED STATES
  • MODERN & CONTEMPORARY
Edition5
Label TextThis photograph documents a 2008 exhibition by Pedro Lasch at the Nasher Museum, titled Black Mirror/Espejo Negro. For the installation, Lasch placed objects from the museum’s Ancient Americas collection on pedestals facing reproductions of Spanish Colonial paintings covered with black glass. This image captures a Mexican incense burner facing a seventeenth-century painting by Francisco de Zurbarán of Saint Francis. Inspired by the Nasher's obsidian mirror (2000.6.1), Lasch’s installation explored themes related to indigenous Amerindian civilizations, such as divination (the sacred art of connecting with the supernatural to know past and future events), necromancy (communicating with the dead), and colonialism, all while encouraging viewers to encircle the objects and take part themselves in the artworks.