Question of identity
AN ECHO
Until 17 December 2022
PETER LIVERSIDGE’S exhibition an echo, explores a theme that has concerned his work for nearly 20 years - that of the double. The idea is currently featured in The Double, an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, which includes Liversidge’s work alongside a roll call of artists (including Albers, Celmins, Duchamp, Rauschenberg and Warhol) for whom the double image has provided a means of understanding and exploring themes of identity and difference. As the exhibition’s curator James Meyer describes it in the accompanying book: “The art of doubling splays and divides vision. Looking at doubled images or shapes, we are able to see ourselves seeing. Works of doubling explore questions of identity – how we distinguish one form, or object, or person from another: how we perceive likeness and unlikeness, resemblance, and difference.”
At Ingleby Gallery 33 Barony Street EH3 6NX