Prado Project

Videos

In his photographs and videos, Hannah explores the reception of art by embedding mirrors in museums. In a solipsistic move, he manipulates canonic works that interrogate the viewing process and offer a meditation on duality. In Two Mirrors, shot at the Museo del Prado in Madrid, Hannah inserts two men and a mirror into Velázquez’s Las Meninas. Although they share only one mirror, Hannah’s title refers to the painted one above, believed to reflect the king and queen posing for their portrait. Velázquez implicated the viewer to a privileged position, just as Hannah situates the viewer to appear through a mirror at the two men staring back.

- Chen Tamir

Photographs

This project has been presented in the following exhibitions:

2010, CUE: Artists' Videos, Part of the Cultural Olympiad, Vancouver Art Gallery. Co-curated by Daina Augaitis and Christopher Eamon.
2010, Endlessly Traversed Landscapes, Part of the Cultural Olympiad, Public Artwork, Vancouver. Curated by Natalie Doonan.
2010, Adad Hannah: Masterpieces in Motion, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut.
2010, Peinture de genre comme figure de Still, Musée d'art contemporain des Laurentides, Quebec. 
         Curated by Éloi Desjardins. Catalog produced.
2010, Connecting to Collections 2: Destinations, Gallery Lambton, Sarnia, Ontario.
2010, Toronto International Art Fair, Presented by Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain, Montréal.
2008, Toronto International Art Fair.
2008, The Québec Triennial, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal.
2008, Adad Hannah: Reflections, Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain, Montréal.