General Idea Luxon VB with Sandy Stagg, 1973
Gelatin silver print
25,2 x 20 cm (unframed)
40 x 34,1 x 3,1 cm (framed)
From December 1, 1973 through January 3, 1974, the Carmen Lamanna Gallery in Toronto presented General Idea’s installation Luxon V.B.: a 114-kilo structure made of 168 double-sided mirrored horizontal Venetian blind (hence V.B.) slats fitted to the window of the gallery. The movable mirrored slats allowed the inside to be reflected outside and the outside to be reflected inside. This black-and-white photograph pictures Sandy Stagg, model and muse of General Idea at the time, staring at her reflection in the mirrored blinds.