Olafur Eliasson- Mirrors

Olafur Eliasson is a Danish-Icelandic contemporary installation artist. "Eliasson regularly incorporates elements appropriated from nature in his work. By introducing such phenomena into an unexpected setting, such as a gallery, the artist encourages the viewer to pause and reflect upon their understanding and perception of the physical world around them. Whether he installs a new gallery floor made of volcanic lava or a delicate rainbow into a museum as he has in previous work, Eliasson questions the familiar, the everyday and the divide between nature and culture.
Throughout his career, Eliasson’s installations and interventions have consciously made the viewer central to the work. This is evident in The Weather Project in which a mirror running the length and breadth of the Turbine Hall ceiling allows visitors to see themselves and the immense space around them reflected overhead. At the far end of the Turbine Hall a large yellow arc of light is suspended and reflected in the mirrored ceiling, linking the real space and replicated expanse to create a ‘sun’. Illuminated with mono-frequency lamps the Turbine Hall is transformed into a monochrome landscape. A fine mist permeates the space in different densities and forms patterns throughout the day." (Tate Press Release)
Eliasson's work explores ideas about perception, expirience and representation. One material that he uses often in his work, and is most relevant to my own work, is the mirror. It "...functions as a device to layer spatial dimensions and expand upon the parameters of fixed rooms." (http://www.suite101.com/content/exhibition-by-olafur-eliasson-at-berlins-martin-gropius-bau-a253863)

Eliasson's use of mirror's questions the preconceived spatial perceptions of the viewer by changing what they are able to see. The mirrors, such as in the images of works above, change how big the room looks by reflecting it in a mirror on the ceiling, and thus forces the viewer to consider if what they are seeing is real.
My use of mirrors in my work is not so much about spacial perceptions but about personal ones. I want the use of mirrors in my work to force the viewer to question their preconceived ideas about themselves, by reflecting their own face, and altering it with a layered image, I wish for the viewer to think about their gender identity.