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From the abundance of pieces of information and images which Hanimann collects, sorts and files he manages to rebuilt new bridges to already acquainted issues. What do we perceive, which meanings do we assign to what we see? Hanimann鈥檚 signs, images, mirror images are at first sight legible but unfold soon after an ironic and playful potential which doesn鈥檛 answer any questions but only raises new ones. In 鈥楤ehind The Mirror鈥� Hanimann explores the behaviour of caged canary birds under diverse conditions. What he found behind the mirror鈥搃f he found鈥搘ill be apparent in the show.

For this exhibition Alex Hanimann reaches deeply into the bag. 鈥楤ehind The Mirror鈥� picks up familiar elements from Hanimann鈥檚 works, varies the already seen and extends the already experienced: Canary birds are being presented in a new experimental arrangement and define along with text works the setting. 

In 鈥楤ehind The Mirror鈥� he has put together the canary birds in groups of different sizes and in different cages. A mirror ensures an additional complication in the set-up: does the lone bird recognise itself in the mirror? Does it feel lonely or are the other birds in the nearby cages close enough to keep it company? And what about the visitors? Are they only observers, or are they becoming part of the set-up by their pure presence. How do they react?