never knew it felt like this Virginia Nimarkoh 08.06.02-07.07.02 Private View: 7 June 2002, 7.00-9.00 pm For the exhibition at Platform Virginia Nimarkoh has restaged four works by contemporary artists, photographing herself in the place of the model/artist/spectator in each image to create what she has described as approximates. Nimarkoh has chosen to make equivalents of images in which the subject does not return the viewer's gaze. These subjects appear self absorbed and somehow resistant to an interrogation of their identity by the viewer's inquisitive gaze. Knowing that we are not looking at the original subject, but at a substitute acting out a 'likeness' of a particular work, makes the identity of the subject even more suspect. There is a vulnerability to both the images, and the exploration and negotiation which has led to their making that is reflected in the title of the exhibition, 'never knew it felt like this' and is always present in every act of mirroring. These new photographs are accompanied by a text piece, 'Trigger' (2002), the fifth work in the exhibition. Supported by Goldsmiths College & University of London Central Research Fund
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