15 mei 2013

Thomas Demand #2












"The photographs used in the based in Berlin exhibition’s graphic design are double exposures by photographer Heji Shin. Studio shots from the Thomas Demand studio were superimposed with pictures of its garden to create these images. The technical requisites, stored artworks and mounted photographs are overlaid with images of the rampant gardens and bushes in the studio’s rear courtyard, so that these photographs resist any original claim of being an unambiguous image.

The photos’ technique and the subject matter merge in a multiplicity of perspectives, thus creating simultaneity. The technique used, which integrates shots of plants and gardens, doubles the image’s subject, degenerating into a loop between camera and plants. As a result, the photographs function as images within images, their superimposition reflecting the idea of an atmosphere created through the medium, rather than a clear image. For based in Berlin, the artist has sought to capture this atmosphere in order to create an image of the simultaneity between the production of art, the art exhibition and the exhibition space in Monbijoupark." (bron: Based in Berlin, foto's Heji Shin)

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