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Thomas Demand’s photographs are slight
improvisations upon reality. The works
create a tension between the fabricated
and the real. Demand begins with a
pre-existing photograph of an actual loca-
tion culled from the mass media. While his
large-scale photographs resemble these
mass-media images, the works actually
show three-dimensional, life-sized models
made from cardboard and paper that De-
mand builds in his studio solely for the
purpose of being photographed. This gen-
eralization process drains away context
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language. The confounding of references
is such that the very idea of an original
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an examination of systems and patterns:
systems of construction and patterns of
visual comprehension.
TEXT BY HEATHER FLOW
Thomas Demand
WORKSPIRIT
