Reflected Sights is a group exhibition centered on the theme of **ars poetica** in visual art. *Ars poetica* refers to the phenomenon in which art reflects upon art itself and its own process of creation. This is art as self-reflection—where the artist turns inward, exploring their own practice, motivations, and medium.

The images in the exhibition are tied to the very act of their creation: motivations for making, the relationships between artists and their work, between artists and viewers, between the act of creation and life itself. They examine subject matter, materiality, and the symbolic roles of objects and gestures that drive the urge to create. The works were selected with the idea of forming an **index of ars poetica imagery**.

Many of **David Ginton**’s works, for example, consistently engage directly with these concerns—such as his paintings and writings on the reverse sides of canvases.

In the introductory essay *"Despair Meets Despair"*, written by Naomi Aviv for Meir Agassi’s book *The Jar from Tennessee*, she recalls Agassi’s words:  

> “Art without myth is meaningless, Meir said. Behind every work of art is the specific artist who created it, and if a piece doesn’t connect with the artist who made it, it becomes problematic—it floats in our consciousness without myth. Art without myth lacks historical, and above all, hierarchical depth, he said. Even the circumstances of a work’s creation form part of its myth. These allude to the artist’s presence and the conditions of their life, he said. Sometimes, even to their death. The myth is always, in every case, the shadow of the artwork—its hidden mirror. Sometimes the artist’s myth is so dominant it casts a heavy shadow of prejudice over how we judge the work, he said. Yet just as much, the absence of information and the uncertainty around the artist can also cast a deep shadow—a shadow that may even conceal the work itself. Like in the case of outsider artists, he said.”

The exhibition title, *Lives of Mirrors*, emerged after a studio visit with **Itzik Livneh**, and in response to a text by **Gaston Bachelard** featured in Livneh’s catalog *Mirrors / Veronica* (works from the 1990s). In that text, Bachelard writes about the sky:  

> “We think we are looking at the blue sky. But suddenly, it is the blue sky that is looking at us.”

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