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The series of mirror compositions contrasts the material presence of the exterior space
outside the mirror’s reflective surface, to that of the interior place of the mirror and the
reflected world in light.
The compression of the State Room within the reflection concentrates the elements of the
room, thereby changing their spatial visual connectivity.
This creates a sense of suspension of time, where remnants and affirmations of past events
coexist and continually act out.
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Set within the 2 State Room, the portrait of LouisXIV, which is a copy of the original
held in the Louvre, Paris, is positioned between the Blenheim Tapestries and can be seen
as the consequence of his expansionist manoeuvres within Europe.
