Review

Ella den Elzen is an artist and curator based in New York. She was a Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellow at the Whitney Independent Study Program in 2023–2024.


This issue of C Magazine looks through the mirror as a bleeding surface—a metaphor for acts of seeing, thinking, and creating that return your gaze. We recognize that the way we look in a mirror is also the way we tell a story, as a reflection of value systems and the stakes of lucidity and distortion, especially under colonial systems that would twist their subjects’ humanity. Many texts here, between artists and writers, take the form of dialogues, and think through persistent possibilities of visual revelation, language, and mourning. Formal and symbolic fractures are reflected through chimerical imagery, Hong Kong cinemas of resistance, Puerto-Rican space-time, physical and spiritual intertwining, and a real place to land for both joy and grief—the end of a rainbow, or its burning.

Mirror Mirror

“M∗∗∗∗∗” ran from 6 July to 31 August 2024 at Mercer Union, Toronto.

“M∗∗∗∗∗” — Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill

“Yours to Discover” ran from 8 January to 19 February 2022 at Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain.

“Yours to Discover” — Zinnia Naqvi 

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