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I saw all the mirrors
A spatial poem based on The Aleph, Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar

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​he Aleph is a story published in 1945 by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986). In it, a man visits the home of a friend and fellow writer, where he sees a wondrous sphere: the Aleph; a small, floating globe no more than three centimetres across into which the whole cosmos is condensed. The installation Two mirrors is a spatial intervention that turns an endless reflection of the terrestrial globe between two mirrors inside out. The observations of the man who saw the whole world in the Aleph are cast into the cosmos by two projectors (the mirrors) aimed at a reflected, turning globe (the Earth).
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