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Now

Lynda Benglis American
1973
Not on view
The hyperactive effects of mirrors and mirroring play a key role in Now, in which the artist interacts with a prerecorded image of herself displayed on a television monitor, mimicking her dopplegänger’s words, gestures, and sounds. Everything from the visual and aural static to the high-key, artificial colors and the tight crop, which eliminates almost all evidence of the monitor behind Benglis, conspires to confuse the real and the virtual.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Now
  • Artist: Lynda Benglis (American, born Lake Charles, Louisiana, 1941)
  • Date: 1973
  • Medium: Single-channel digital video, transferred from video tape, color, sound, 12 min.
  • Classification: Variable Media
  • Credit Line: Purchase, Henry Nias Foundation Inc. Gift, 2010
  • Object Number: 2010.242
  • Rights and Reproduction: Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York
  • Curatorial Department: Photographs

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