
Self portrait of you + me (Kim Novak)
2006
Douglas Gordon's 'Self portrait of you + me (Kim Novak)' (2006) merges photography with mirror to create an interactive work that implicates the viewer in its meaning. The piece plays with identity, reflection, and the cinematic legacy of actress Kim Novak. Gordon's work explores how self-representation is constructed through the gaze of others.
- Medium
- photograph and mirror
- Location
- Sotheby's, New York, NY
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Sotheby'sView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Art Contemporain Day Sale
November 23, 2021
Estimate: $8,000 to $12,000
Lot 213
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Cindy Sherman
American · b. 1954

Sherman's photographic practice similarly interrogates constructed identity and self representation through the lens of cinematic and media archetypes, using her own body as a mirror for cultural projections much like Gordon implicates the viewer in Kim Novak's legacy.

Michelangelo Pistoletto
Italian · b. 1933

Pistoletto pioneered the use of reflective mirror surfaces combined with photographic imagery to physically merge the viewer into the artwork, directly paralleling Gordon's technique of fusing photography with mirror to collapse the boundary between self and image.

Christian Marclay
American Swiss · b. 1955

Marclay similarly appropriates cinematic and pop cultural imagery within conceptual mixed media installations that interrogate how identity and selfhood are constructed through our relationship to existing cultural representations and the gaze embedded within them.
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