Thomas Demand – Ciel variable Magazine

Thomas Demand, Le bégaiement de l’histoire — Second Seeing, Stephen Horne

Ciel variable 124 – SEEING THROUGH IMAGES | Portfolios
Authors: Stephen Horne | Artists: Thomas Demand

[Fall 2023] Second Seeing Stephen Horne [Excerpt] I must be getting mixed, confusing here and there, now and then, just as I confused them then, the here of then, the1then of there. — Samuel Beckett What is this “confusion” of which the playwright Beckett speaks? He wrote this some seventy years ago, before electronic media […]

Seeing Through Images

Ciel variable 124 – SEEING THROUGH IMAGES | Portfolios
Artists: Adad Hannah, Nicolas Baier, Thomas Demand

[Fall 2023] These are images that disrupt, catch our attention, and thus intensify our gaze. What they show us is clear and precise, and yet there is something we can’t place, sometimes almost imperceptible, that encourages us to look more closely and ask more questions about the context of image production. So, what we are […]

What is to be seen?

Ciel variable 124 – SEEING THROUGH IMAGES | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon | Artists: Adad Hannah, Nicolas Baier, Thomas Demand

[Fall 2023] By Jacques Doyon These are images that catch our attention and intensify our gaze. What they show us is clear and precise, and yet there is something we can’t place, something that encourages us to look more closely and to question the context of their production. In Nicolas Baier’s work, it is the […]

Thomas Demand, Animations – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 96 – PERFORMING FOR THE IMAGE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Thomas Demand

June 27, 2018 [originally published in CV96 in Winter 2014] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Thomas Demand – Johanna Mizgala

Ciel variable 68 – MEMORIES OF THE DISASTER | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Johanna Mizgala | Artists: Thomas Demand

[Summer 2005] The Museum of Modern Art, New York 4 March – 30 May, 2005 Looking at one of Thomas Demand’s photographs of a carefully replicated environment provokes a strange sensation of simultaneous recognition and disavowal. The composition contains familiar objects, and it seems familiar because it stems from seeing a similar image in another […]