Reflections refract reality. They reverse our vision while telling the truth; overturn our orientation while offering complete clarity. In the Austrian Cultural Forum’s new London gallery, two identical rooms stare at each other through an empty mirror frame which divides the space. To the right, one clock says ten to three. In theopposite room its hands chime backwards. On an old reading table, a book tells us about Alice in Wonderland.On the opposite table, the backwards text proves too hard to read. By asking us to step between these twoversions of reality, like Alice through the looking glass, artist Markus Wilfling confuses our most straightforward understanding of this ordinary living room. Is there a real and a reflection? An original and a copy? A rightand a wrong? In doubling such ordinary objects with meticulous detail, Wilfling slows down our automatic perceptions, presenting minimal changes, yet completely inverting our world.

alice is where is alice will be Wilfling’s first UK exhibition. Born in Innsbruck in 1966 and based in Graz, his
practice focuses on subverting everyday objects through minimal changes. By duplicating a common chair and
presenting it next to its black counterpart, he materialises a shadow, by cutting dripping paint out of black
rubber, he makes liquid solid, and by placing a diving board in a church, he questions the object and space.
Wilfling’s signature work, commissioned for Graz Cultural Capital of Europe 2003, turned the entire skyline
into a two-dimensional theatre set, by creating a fake shadow for the iconic medieval clock-tower on the hill.