Lehmann Maupin is pleased to announce the opening of a group show entitled The Crystal Stopper curated by Carlos Basualdo. The show includes the work of Teresita Fernández, Félix González-Torres, Dan Graham, Quisqueya Henríquez & Consuelo Castañeda, Alfredo Jaar, Sophie Tottie, and Dolores Zinny & Juan Maidagan. Weekly screenings on Thursday evenings of the film The Mirror by Andrei Tarkovsky will also be part of this exhibition.

The Crystal Stopper show was formed around the theme of the mirror and its place in contemporary identity formation. The mirror is a reflective surface which provides one with one's own image, and this reflected portrait serves as the model in identity formation. In this exhibition, the image is taken out of the mirror so that instead of one's self the mirror reflects the surrounding world.