Searching -Through the Looking Glass

Text: Salwat Ali

Visuals: Courtesy Amin Gulgee Gallery

Stepping through the Looking Glass into Amin Gulgees Wonderland was a strangely familiar experience. A collision of the personal and the universal his medley of creative entanglements titled “Through the Looking Glass”, exhibited at his own gallery, centered on a reconfiguration of old works. The trick was to see them through a new lens. Mirrors have a great propensity to draw people into them physically and cognitively and Amin played creatively with mirror reflections, the see through look, peek – a - boo effects and gazing into infinity to transform familiar tales into new stories.