The work of German artist Thomas Demand (1964) straddles the line between fiction and reality. A and Bozar have invited him to give a lecture on 22 October at the Centre for Fine Arts. He will no doubt also discuss his work, which will be on display at Museum M in Leuven at the time.

Empty offices, silent corridors, greyness, places as symbols of work and capitalism. According to Thomas Demand, society is a ‘non-place’ and the world is a stage set. Most of the German artist’s photographs are reconstructions of images from the press or the internet. By reproducing these images as models in his studio, Thomas Demand succeeds in focusing attention on the pictorial nature of the image rather than on the subject of the image itself. He reconstructs the places from which he has removed the inhabitants and stripped of the most obvious historical references using coloured paper and cardboard, usually life-size, only to destroy them once the photograph has been taken.