Window of the world (1999)

High rise apartment buildings behind the Cathedral of Colgne – so near. Too near to this monument. In „Window of the world“ the whole Manhattan island would fit inside the German cathedral. India`s Taj Mahal is just a few steps away from Angkor Wat in Cambodia and the Easter Islands are just across the Queensborough Bridge in New York. The „Window of the World“ theme park in Shenzhen, China, offers attractions such as these. Attracting a million visitors a year to the rapidly growing center of the

Guangdong Special Economic Zone. The world of the „Window of the World“ is just a few square kilometers big, the world can be found as a replica in different scales, condensed here to its monuments.

Chinese visitors take picture of themselves in front of the monuments and hunt down all the world’s photo trophies in one day. In „Window of the World“, the European notions of original and fake, replica and imitation become blurred.