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Known for his immaculate photographs of environments elaborately constructed out of cardboard and paper, Thomas Demand continues to draw on source material from historical, political and media images. The resultant work nevertheless divests the photographic image of obvious referents, reducing the real to a generic form and leaving an uneasy tension between the apparent blankness of each photograph and the loaded background which often informs it. Subject matter is desensitised and we are left with formal, empty spaces filled with inanimate objects and the deliberate use of stark lighting and bland institutional colours adds to the unsettling appearance of each work.
