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< > ABOVE: Gordon Lebredt, Hidebound: on the turn (before the mirror) of one such visage, one such model..... Photo credit: Ernest Mayer. (Note: To navigate please click arrows or image.) 19 Hidebound: on the turn (before the mirror) of one such visage, one such model.... 1978 / 2005 Inkjet on paper mounted on masonite 77.5 x 121.9 cm Collection of the Artist This work is a reconstruction based on the original piece (now destroyed) that was submitted to A Space gallery in Toronto for the exhibition Station to Station, an exhibition of photographs placed in a select number of Toronto subway stations in 1979. The proposal was not accepted. Hidebound is based on a cosmetic advertisement, appropriated from the pages of Cosmopolitan magazine. Lebredt asks, “Should we speak here of the necessity of a certain propriety or decorum whereby the image, at once, divides itself into, on the one hand, a moment or movement of revelation (literally, showing that it has nothing to hide) and, on the other, one of concealment or deception?” (NOTE: below is a detail of the work.)