Sensor flaws & dead pixels, ESO
Inkjet print on paper, clips
161 x 226.4 cm(Left)、160.7 x 226.7 cm(Right)
Edition：1/1
2012
The present work belongs to Tillmans's series of photographs taken from his travels around the world, entitled Neue Welt ("New World," started in 2008). With this body of work, the artist continues to reveal a connectedness between seemingly disparate subjects and themes, while also demonstrating that our individual experiences are always in a state of flux. Portraits of anonymous passersby appear alongside shopping centers, night skies, plants, car headlights, famous sights, and nondescript locations, with each image independently indicative of the larger whole. Made with a digital camera, a relatively new introduction in Tillmans's visual discourse, Neue Welt is at once reflective of a new perception of the world, while also bringing together many of the issues explored in his practice to date. As the artist notes, "a whole new layer has entered my work, which can only be seen in person in front of the actual prints. The depth of detail is so great that a picture can never be memorized in its entirety. It's as if in each one there is a sense of the infinite complexity of matter—a kind of trompe l'oeil effect that is neither clinical nor cold but surreal."
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