Oh my, I’m seeing double – and I like it! This is a series, titled “Splitting Image”, by Melbourne based artist Bronwen Vaughan Evans. I just wrote about a printmaker on Tuesday and thought I might be working on a bit of a theme for the week…  until I read that these are gesso and oil paintings on board. HUH?! Amazing. Also amazing – Bronwen’s description of this show, and how she hung it {in two separate locations at the same time!}:

“This body of work explores the notion that our experience is mirrored elsewhere by other unknown persons. The works allude to the fleeting realisation that, in certain moments, we share a connection with strangers who are having a similar experience. Thus the show suggests a twinning of sorts and references the concept of a doppelganger.

The show consists of 30 pairs of paintings. While the paintings in each pair are essentially identical, the individual works do differ slightly. The pairs were split and exhibited in geographically separate locations. The two shows opened simultaneously, and the audience was made aware of the fact that there was another almost identical exhibition happening elsewhere, thereby actualising the feeling of mirrored experience.

The geographical splitting of the works also references the idea that while two people might be looking at exactly the same image, their perception of that image will differ, and one can never fully know the vision of the other.”