Jerusalem Bianalle 2017

“Mira Maylor works primarily in glass and metal. Her sculptures and installations have explored aspects of history and culture, as well as contemporary social and political issues. Her haunting series of heads, Transparents, harnesses the inherent qualities of glass to express the fragility, vulnerability, and estrangement of  parts of human society . Delicate fissures visible on the surface of the heads speak powerfully to the precarious ontology of negotiating this problematic status. Mounted on mirrors, each head acquires its own doppelgänger, a metaphor for those hiding in plain sight and for the thwarted potential alternative life which has been denied . At the same time, Maylor’s use of glass and mirrors invites the observer to see himself or herself reflected in the works’ surfaces.”

Dr Emily Bilski, Curator of the Exhibition