Mirror of the invisible

«The mirror of invisible» is a visual exploration of female imagery, mythological archetypes, and viewing mechanisms. The work originates from my enduring engagement with goddess mythology, seeking to re-examine gender issues and their concealed cultural mechanisms through mythological frameworks.

Throughout human history, both men and women have experienced periods of empowerment and disempowerment, during which mythology has played an imperceptible yet unquestioned role. The tripartite division of «virgin/mother/crone» in mythological narratives constitutes a prevalent archetypal structure, symbolizing three stages of female life cycles or three aspects of natural forces. Adopting this framework, I employ traditional gelatin dry plate photographic processes to create negative portraits of three generations of women in my family — myself, my mother, and my grandmother — attempting to construct connections through women’s instinctive capacity for life creation.

Using glass as medium, the installation invites viewers to observe alternating positive and negative images through transparent surfaces, creating perceptual oscillations between stasis and motion, positive and negative, visibility and invisibility. Through this dislocated viewing experience, I aim to address women’s status as gazed-upon objects in cultural constructs, deconstruct mythic metaphors rooted in collective unconsciousness. Utilizing image materiality and spatial perception of installation, the work guides viewers into interstitial awareness between history and present, reality and mythology.