{"id":541,"date":"2012-03-28T21:13:36","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T19:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johannasmiatek.com\/new\/?page_id=541"},"modified":"2018-04-18T15:02:07","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T13:02:07","slug":"paris","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.johannasmiatek.com\/en\/arbeiten\/paris\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p><!-- index.php -->\n<div\n\tclass=\"ngg-galleryoverview\n\t ngg-ajax-pagination-none\t\"\n\tid=\"ngg-gallery-61db38de585f3864c17166a3419a7514-1\">\n\n\t\t\t<!-- Thumbnails -->\n\t\t\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-0\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box\" \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.johannasmiatek.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/paris-en\/paris.jpg\"\n\t\t\t\ttitle=\"Paris, 2009; mirror vibrating. It\u00b4s impossible to see a clear image.\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-src=\"https:\/\/www.johannasmiatek.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/paris-en\/paris.jpg\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.johannasmiatek.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/paris-en\/thumbs\/thumbs_paris.jpg\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-image-id=\"245\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-title=\"paris\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-description=\"Paris, 2009; mirror vibrating. It\u00b4s impossible to see a clear image.\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-image-slug=\"paris-2\"\n\t\t\t\tclass=\"ngg-simplelightbox\" rel=\"61db38de585f3864c17166a3419a7514\">\n\t\t\t\t<img\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle=\"paris\"\n\t\t\t\t\talt=\"paris\"\n\t\t\t\t\tsrc=\"https:\/\/www.johannasmiatek.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/paris-en\/thumbs\/thumbs_paris.jpg\"\n\t\t\t\t\twidth=\"167\"\n\t\t\t\t\theight=\"250\"\n\t\t\t\t\tstyle=\"max-width:100%;\"\n\t\t\t\t\/>\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t<!-- Pagination -->\n\t\t<div class='ngg-clear'><\/div>\t<\/div>\n<p><strong>Paris, <\/strong>2009<br \/>\n\tmirror, wood, motor, motion detector<br \/>\n\tca. 180 x 80 cm<br \/>\n\tGeorg-Kolbe-Museum, 2009<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; Essentially the piece is based on interaction with the viewers. When they approach the object, attracted by a mirror image, a distance sensor triggers a motor to vibrate the mirror. The image dissolves into a shivering blur that can only be overcome at a distance, once the kinetic disruption ceases. An ironic commentary on the desire to watch ourselves in the mirror. Personal vanity is effectively restrained by this work of art.<br \/>\n\tOvid&acute;s myth of Narcissus comes to mind immediately, the story of the young man, who comes across his reflection in a pool and falls in love with it (believing it to be someone else). Each try to grasp the desired body ends in its disappearance in the water&acute;s disruption. As in Johanna Smiatek&rsquo;s piece, too much proximity makes the illusion disappear.<br \/>\n\t&#8230;&#8230;<br \/>\n\tThe artist named the prototype of the quivering mirror (a wall-mounted object) <em>Paris &ndash; or like jello on legs<\/em>, referring to the &lsquo;Judgment of Paris&rsquo;, the tale of the Trojan prince, who chose the goddess Aphrodite over Hera and Athena as the most beautiful of all women. Again and again, Johanna Smiatek deals with time-honored clich&eacute;s that she subverts or renders absurd in the net of manifold references that she weaves between her works. (Quote: Marc Wellmann)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paris, <\/strong>2009<br \/>\n\tmirror, wood, motor, motion detector<br \/>\n\tca. 180 x 80 cm<br \/>\n\tGeorg-Kolbe-Museum, 2009<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; Essentially the piece is based on interaction with the viewers. When they approach the object, attracted by a mirror image,<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johannasmiatek.com\/en\/arbeiten\/paris\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":13,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johannasmiatek.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/541"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johannasmiatek.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johannasmiatek.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johannasmiatek.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johannasmiatek.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.johannasmiatek.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1959,"href":"https:\/\/www.johannasmiatek.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/541\/revisions\/1959"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johannasmiatek.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johannasmiatek.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}