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A critical essay on the photography of Irina Vladi — her mirror self-portraits read through Butler, Bergson, Derrida, Blanchot, Deleuze, and Sartre. The mirror as threshold: between self and other, the actual and the virtual, the gaze that looks inward and outward simultaneously. Vladi describes herself as a “time traveller” and “alien in disguise” — her self-portraits with mirrors lock the viewer into a Medusa-like gaze, the eyes two-way mirrors looking inward and outward at once.