The work of German artist Thomas Demand (1964) oscillates between fiction and reality. A+ and Bozar have invited him to give a lecture on 26 April at the Centre for Fine Arts.

Empty offices, silent, grey corridors, symbolic places of work and capitalism. Society is a “non-place” and, according to Thomas Demand, the world is a stage set. Most of the German artist’s photographs are reconstructions of images taken from the press or the web. By reproducing these photographic images as models in his studio, Thomas Demand succeeds in focusing the viewer’s gaze on the pictorial surface of the representation rather than on the subject of the image itself. He empties these places of their occupants and their most obvious historical references, reconstructing them in paper and coloured cardboard, usually on a 1:1 scale, only to destroy them once the single shot has been taken.