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(born in Montreal, Canada in 1974; lives and works in Los Angeles) La chute, 2015, mirror, wood, steel, glue, 214.6 x 122.6 x 18.4 cm Provenance: Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York European Corporate Collection (acquired from the above) Exhibited: Montreal, Quebec, Galerie Renée Blouin, 20 June - 5 September 2015 “Actually, a mirror isn’t really the mirror itself that we see – it’s what it reflects. We see ourselves in it, we see the objects in the space, we see their reflection in the mirror. So the mirror doesn’t really have a color – its color is the color of the things it reflects. If a mirror were perfect – with no fingerprints, no dust, no cracks – it wouldn’t really exist visually. We wouldn’t see it. So for me, the idea of taking a hammer and smashing it all at once is a way of allowing it to exist immediately. What might seem like a destructive gesture is actually, for me, a positive one. It was like a challenge: starting from an object that is very cold, industrial, almost architectural, very abstract – and then finding a way to inject life into it, to inject energy into it.“ David Altmejd Photos: © David Altmejd Studio