Useful Illusions (2001 – 2002)

In the photo series „Useful Illusions,“ different perspectives cross over another to become a single image, in which left and right views of various city structures meet. Along a middle of the image, perspectival lines extend from each view to its correspnding otmher half. This creates steroe views of apparently familiar realities. Most of the motives consist of a functiuonal space of science and research juxtaposedwith a view from the artificial worlds of theme parks and malls.

Like a shadow on the retina, the findely 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 the to achieve congruence, the gaze builds a new, illusionarystructure. The intervowen elements, the repeating forms, the material references, the different uses of the same architectural languages, and the mirroring perspectives forge an assiciative space beyond representations – a space of the simulacrum.