
In Mirror Check Jonas uses a small handheld mirror to inspect her naked body in front of an audience. Though her movements were visible to the spectators, Jonas did not allow them to see the fragmented image reflected in the mirror. As the artist recalls, βMirror Check was inspired by the situation in the late 1960s and early β70s of the womenβs movement and the idea of a woman reversing the gaze and claiming her body as her own.β First performed as part of Mirror Piece II (1970), the work was subsequently documented on its own and created into its own film. [Overview courtesy of MoMA]
Directed by Joan Jonas
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