
Self-Portrait of You + Me (Jane Birkin)
A burnt and partially destroyed photograph of Jane Birkin is layered against mirrored glass, so that the viewer's own reflection merges with the fading, damaged image of the iconic actress and singer. Gordon's act of burning collapses the boundary between destruction and preservation, while the mirror implicates the viewer in an intimate, unsettling exchange with the vanishing figure. The work probes themes of desire, celebrity, memory, and identity, questioning who truly possesses an image — its subject, its destroyer, or the person gazing back at themselves within it.
- Medium
- burnt photograph, mirrored glass, in artist's frame
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
🔨 Auction Lot
Contemporary Art Day Sale
October 16, 2014
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