General Idea
Canadian, active 1967-1994
Mirror Sequences
INV-2475
General Idea
Canadian, active 1967-19941969
Mirror Sequences
General Idea Canadian, active 1967-1994 →contemporaryphotographyphotograph
Date
1969
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Image: 25.4 × 20.3 cm (10 × 8 in.); Frame: 36.8 × 30.4 × 3.1 cm (14 1/2 × 12 × 1 1/4 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Purchased with funds provided by an anonymous donor
In 1968, when I began taking self-portraits, I was concerned with the body: more specifically, with my body, and with my body in relation to my friends’ bodies. I had no other way to measure the world. Lacking an identity, or any way to judge my separation from others, I began with my physical self . . .
—AA Bronson, 2002
Mirror Sequences is a self-portrait in which a convex mirror reflects and multiplies a fragmented body. The photograph was taken by AA Bronson and is credited to General Idea, an artist collective founded in 1969 by Bronson, Felix Partz (Canadian, 1945–1994), and Jorge Zontal (Italian, 1944–1994). General Idea would go on to create parodies of the art world and consumer culture and respond forcefully to the AIDS epidemic.
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