The images shown are installation views at the Chichester Festival Theatre from 5th July 2021 to 1st January 2022.

Lacan’s Mirror interrogates the boundaries between the real, the imaginary, and the symbolic, drawing on Jacques Lacan’s concept of the mirror stage. The work positions the viewer in a space of perceptual ambiguity: what is seen may be real, reflected, projected, or partially a fragment of the self. In this interplay, perception becomes an active, lived experience, where the mind negotiates presence and absence, self and other.

Mirrors fragment and multiply reality, producing subtle, subliminal impressions that evoke a liminal tension. Presence is suggested rather than fully revealed, and the act of looking becomes an encounter with both the visible and the concealed. The work invites a gestalt of opposing forces—the real and the reflected, the external and the internal—transforming the simple act of observation into an exploration of perception, identity, and the ephemeral traces of human presence.