With today’s closing of the National Gallery of Art exhibition The Double: Identity and Difference in Art Since 1900 I belatedly share my contribution to the show, a look at three examples of “temporal doubling”—by artists Christina Fernandez, Felix Gmelin, and Mary Kelly. What do their works, created in 1999, 2002, and 2005, have to tell us about the strange days we’re living in now?

Fernandez melds her own self portraits into works by iconic Mexican photographers as a meditation on racism against Indigenous people. Gmelin’s two-channel video pairs a revolutionary relay race in Berlin in 1968 with a reenactment, using his own students, in Stockholm. And Kelly’s projection morphs between a photo of women at a 1970 women’s liberation march (marking the 50th anniversary of passage of the 19th Amendment) and her restaging of it in 2005. What echoes do their works have today?

Read “Doubling Across Time: Three Artists on Racism, Revolution, and Feminism” at the NGA blog.