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Last Updated Thursday 22nd June 2006

Asked to contribute to the forthcoming 'Health of the Nation'-themed, August issue of i-D magazine, Nick Knight and Simon Foxton elected to create a photographic story about the 'brutalising city': how it is brutalised by us, how it brutalises us and as a result, how it encourages us to brutalise each other. Taking the Gaia hypothesis that the universe functions as a single, living organism as a point of departure, the pair set about imagining cities as humans: fractures in its concrete 'skin' symbolising slashes to the body, the water flowing under London or its interconnecting roads as veins and arteries. The loose correlations are endless.

Realising that London is only one of many possible locations for such a shoot, Nick and Simon have decided to open their project up to SHOWstudio viewers worldwide, throwing down their brief as a gauntlet to the many internationally-based photographers we know view the site and contribute to the FORUM. In the [below] handwritten notes, Nick has identified a series of image types for those wishing to participate –such as backs of advertising hoardings, police signs, floral tributes, cuts on fists, police cells, cash dispensers or binge-drinking girls- around which you should construct your version of the shoot.

So, get snapping and, using the upload form, send us your 'brutalising city' story in advance of i-D's publication date: the second week of July. It will then be published in a special gallery on SHOWstudio where not only will you be able to compare your work against that of Nick and Simon, we look forward to seeing the difference between how photographers from across the planet each interpret the brief and their experience of city living.

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在flickr上看到很漂亮的照片。

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Thomas Demand is best known for his unique approach to photography. He makes images of rooms and other spaces that initially look real but are, in fact, photographs of three-dimensional models, mostly life sized, painstakingly constructed entirely from coloured paper and cardboard.

At first sight, the subjects represented in Demand’s photographs seem commonplace and familiar, but often they relate to scenes of cultural or political relevance, which have come to our attention through the mass media. They range from the archives of German filmmaker and National Socialist propagandist Leni Riefenstahl to the kitchen in Saddam Hussein’s hideaway in Tikrit, Iraq.

Close inspection of Demand’s life-like images reveal a lack of detail and, as a result, the artifice of his scenes become apparent. His art reconsiders the traditional notion of photography as a faithful record of reality, highlighting the evasiveness of the medium in a world that is saturated with manipulated or mediated images.

The Serpentine exhibition will include a number of new photographs and a film, as well as a selection of seminal works for which he has achieved international acclaim over the last decade. The works will be set in a specially designed environment, in response to the gallery’s domestic peculiarity, having originally been designed as a tea pavilion. Each of the four areas in the Gallery will be covered in different wallpapers, which Demand has designed and produced in collaboration with a wallpaper manufacturer that continues to print traditional designs by nineteenth- century craftsman William Morris.

Born in Munich in 1964, Demand represented Germany at the Bienal de Sao Paulo in 2004 and his work was the subject of a mid-career retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 2005.

Thomas Demand at the Serpentine is supported by Wallpaper^*

With kind assistance from:

Maja Oeri and Hans Bodenmann
Ringier AG
Tishman Speyer
Beth Swofford

And:

G Burton Graphics
Glenn Fuhrman
John Kaldor and Naomi Milgrom
Michael and Fiona King
John A Smith and Vicky Hughes
Brooke and Daniel Neidich

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