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Lot Essay
"Demand's works consistently bear the marks of an ambivalence that is based on simulating reality so that it is deceptively genuine on the one hand, while on the other hand the viewer is always aware that he is dealing with a model, in other words with a second reality that is faintly reminiscent of the fictions acted out in children's games.
"In just the same way that architects or scientists build models to give a clear sense of reality or to present ideas in visual form, Thomas Demand also works with models as simplifying pictorial representations. Not models that flirt with reducing reality, not models that trivialize reality, but models that function as demonstration objects and which he uses to reflect in an exemplary fashion about the construction of reality: though-models - hypotheses." (Ulrike Schneider, 'Model', in: 'Thomas Demand. Report', Hanover 2001, p. 47.)
"In just the same way that architects or scientists build models to give a clear sense of reality or to present ideas in visual form, Thomas Demand also works with models as simplifying pictorial representations. Not models that flirt with reducing reality, not models that trivialize reality, but models that function as demonstration objects and which he uses to reflect in an exemplary fashion about the construction of reality: though-models - hypotheses." (Ulrike Schneider, 'Model', in: 'Thomas Demand. Report', Hanover 2001, p. 47.)