in a double move"
Does "replicating his image in a double move" in the text below imply "replicating his image in the form of a wax double (artist's double)" or "replicating his image in two simultaneous media: wax sculpture and photograph"?

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Ray’s playfulness is tongue-in-cheek, his self-portrait, No, 1992, posing questions about the representation of identity, the work being a photograph of a wax model of the artist, thereby replicating his image in a double move that triggers the ‘intellectual uncertainty’ mentioned by Jentsch. Oh Charlie Charlie Charlie, 1992, features a group of mannequin doubles of the artist displayed in sexually compromised positions whose interlocked exchange of bodily surfaces echoes the ubiquity of contemporary technologies of simulation.

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in a double move"
Does "replicating his image in a double move" in the text below imply "replicating his image in the form of a wax double (artist's double)" or "replicating his image in two simultaneous media: wax sculpture and photograph"?

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Ray’s playfulness is tongue-in-cheek, his self-portrait, No, 1992, posing questions about the representation of identity, the work being a photograph of a wax model of the artist, thereby replicating his image in a double move that triggers the ‘intellectual uncertainty’ mentioned by Jentsch. Oh Charlie Charlie Charlie, 1992, features a group of mannequin doubles of the artist displayed in sexually compromised positions whose interlocked exchange of bodily surfaces echoes the ubiquity of contemporary technologies of simulation.

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Thank you John :)

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Your second suggestion is closer. The idea is that the wax model was a representation of the artist, and the photograph was a representation of the wax model - so the photograph was a representation of a representation. That's why he calls it 'a double move'. (The text you quote is very obscure; if you can understand it you're doing a lot better than most native speakers would.)

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