Curriculum
Jun 05, 2018
3 minutes
By Thomas Demand
At first sight, Thomas Demand’s images of office interiors and middle-class homes appear to be mundane records of modern life. But for the German artist, who turned to photography in 1993, reality is about reconstruction. Demand creates meticulous paper models based on pictures circulating in the media, such as the vacant control room of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant or Whitney Houston’s last meal. His photographs of these scenes, like 3-D renderings, are all the more unsettling for their clarity and detachment. “It’s not about history,”
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