A drawing in connection with the Corridor Installation with Mirror - San Jose Installation (Double Wedge Corridor with Mirror), one of the many corridors that Nauman experimented with in the...
A drawing in connection with the Corridor Installation with Mirror - San Jose Installation (Double Wedge Corridor with Mirror), one of the many corridors that Nauman experimented with in the late 1960s and into the 1970s but it was the only one he made on the San Jose State University (SJSU) campus. This piece is owned by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York and was recreated on the campus of SJSU in 2018 with Nauman overseeing the installation. The two narrow, white corridor walls form the shape of a capital letter V. A tall mirror hangs at the end of the path but, as one approaches it, the image doesn’t immediately make an appearance. It’s like making way toward a funhouse mirror, except it’s the walls themselves that distort your perceptions. Nauman describes the feeling like this: “It does have a certain confounding aspect. To me the essential experience of it was walking towards a mirror, apparently showing you the corridor that you are walking toward the mirror in, but you do not appear in it.”