L’Homme Double

My interpretation of Christine Borland's exhibit in GENERATION: 25 YEARS OF CONTEMPORARY ART IN SCOTLAND at the Scottish National Gallery

Christine Borland provided six different artists, all sculptors, with exactly the same information on which they were to base a portrait: two grainy, black-and-white portrait photographs and some short descriptions of a man’s physical appearance.

When seen together, the six portraits do not provide a clear, recognisable, singular identity, but a number of possibilities.

The person described to the artists was the notorious Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele (1911–1979), known as ‘the Angel of Death’.