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| Useful Illusions 2001-2002 | In the photo series “useful illusions,” different perspectives cross over one another to become a single image, in which left and right views of various city structures meet. Along the middle of the image, perspectival lines extend from each view to its corresponding other half. This creates stereo views of apparently familiar realities.
Most of the motives consist of a functional space of science and research juxtaposed with a view from the artificial worlds of theme parks and malls. Like a shadow on the retina, the finely structured world of the left side of the image accompanies us as we observed the right side, and vice versa. Oscillating between motives and comparing them to achieve congruence, the gaze builds a new, illusionary structure. The interwoven elements, the repeating forms, the material references, the different uses of the same architectural languages, and the mirroring perspectives forge an associative space beyond representations—a space of simulacra.
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