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A continual shifting between reality and fiction lies at the heart of Thomas Demand’s works: they are ambiguous screens that occupy the boundary between abstraction and detail, formal concreteness and two-dimensional illusion. Using an original process to develop his art, Demand (Munich, Germany, 1964) seeks inspiration in found images, mixing memories tied to his own experience with recent history or with the collective imagination. These places of memory are translated into paper and cardboard models which the artist produces in his Berlin studio. Executed with obsessive precision and with slight deformations that are conceived with the camera lens in mind, these sculptural models are then photographed, and the resulting image is the work that Demand presents to the public.
