MNG Presents

Outside In

By Claire Macmahon

Outside In 2021 focuses on the idea that our self, internally known, has a disjunct from ourselves externally known. By using references to surveillance, I create an experience where the self is understood as an externally perceived subject.

A live video of the audience walking around the gallery is projected into a mirror ball hanging from the ceiling, which reflects the live video, fragmented, onto three walls of the gallery. By detaching the audience's external images and movements from their physical existence within the gallery, this work looks at how our internal or external selves may differ from our self-perception, or how others may view us. This work forces us to look at ourselves as a spectator, thinking about how others may see us and question who we are. 

See the exhibition in the Main Space Gallery from April 19-30