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Lot Essay
"Corridor: Three cheerless yellow doors: one will lead to Jeffrey Dahmer's apartment. Dahmer's crimes so heinous; his apartment so regular: This domestic view of the hallway almost normalizes him, making the contemplation of the actual space nearly impossible.
"(Convicted Paedophile, Kidnapper, Rapist, Pornographer, Murderer, Necrophile and Cannibal, Jeffery Dahmer found Jesus in prison and turned to a quiet, peaceful life of incarcerated repentance. He was killed by another prisoner with a mop while on cleaning duty.)
"Each of Demand's life sized sets are entirely constructed from paper. Modelled from archive photos, Demand chooses to reconstruct his scenes with forensic accuracy: each treated with the same documentary sense of suspension and qualm. Sharing the desolation of Edward Hopper and not-quite-right eeriness of Cindy Sherman's film stills, Demand's 'virtual realities' are perhaps most disturbing because they do something that virtual reality never intended: they re-create the real. These are photos of contemporary legends, the real-life media-friendly horror stories of popular gossip." (Patricia Ellis, in: 'Notorious: Thomas Demand', London 1999.)
"(Convicted Paedophile, Kidnapper, Rapist, Pornographer, Murderer, Necrophile and Cannibal, Jeffery Dahmer found Jesus in prison and turned to a quiet, peaceful life of incarcerated repentance. He was killed by another prisoner with a mop while on cleaning duty.)
"Each of Demand's life sized sets are entirely constructed from paper. Modelled from archive photos, Demand chooses to reconstruct his scenes with forensic accuracy: each treated with the same documentary sense of suspension and qualm. Sharing the desolation of Edward Hopper and not-quite-right eeriness of Cindy Sherman's film stills, Demand's 'virtual realities' are perhaps most disturbing because they do something that virtual reality never intended: they re-create the real. These are photos of contemporary legends, the real-life media-friendly horror stories of popular gossip." (Patricia Ellis, in: 'Notorious: Thomas Demand', London 1999.)