Thomas Demand

The Fiction of the Image

24/02/2022

Werkstatt / Workshop, 2017

In the era of post-truth, and at a time when the documentary role of photography is being put into question, the work of Thomas Demand (Munich, 1964) moves within the liminal space between reality and fiction. With recent exhibitions at the Botín Centre in Santander and the Garage Museum in Moscow, the multifaceted artist continues to pursue his particular modus operandi, whereby he transfers faits divers scenes to real-size paper and cardboard models, which he then reinterprets through his own photographs and finally destroys. In this way he aims to take the observer to the limit, inviting them to reflect on what society accepts as the objective truth.