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"The Narcissus series
excerpt from Narcissus Lament, single channel HD video, 10 min
According to one reading of the legend, the tragedy of Narcissus was not his vanity and self-love but that he was cursed to be unable to recognize his own reflection. Having unrivaled beauty, his fatal end was inevitable. A few millennia later, neuroscience discovered a condition known as Capgras syndrome, associated with damage to the fusiform gyrus, an area in the brain that specializes in reading faces. Patients afflicted with the Capgras syndrome are unable to recognize faces, including their own face in a mirror. This ability, to recognize one’s reflection is common to very few animals and may be one of the keys to consciousness, language acquisition, empathy and perhaps a neurophysiological theory of the understanding and appreciation of art...."
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