I took a trip to London with a group of people on my course and we went to see the Thomas Demand Exhibition at Sprüth Magers Gallery. The exhibition was called 'The Dailies', named after the raw footage that cameramen collect during filming, and the way in which Demand is showing us how the work is produced certainly has a feel of extra footage.
The images are of paper model re-creations of real life objects and spaces, and at first when i went to the gallery i didn't know this, but upon looking at the work, i figured it out due to the subtle yet obvious clues that Demand leaves in the images. Things like the edges of paper and the grooves of the corrugated cardboard. What makes it feel like raw footage is the fact that these images are taken on an iPhone, which reminds me of the way people take things like location shots and images for a scrap/work book, however Demand's images become something special via the print process.
The process used is 'Dye Transfer' and while talking to the people at the gallery, one lady mentioned how Demand had basically used all the dye left in the world for this process, as the dye is no longer in production. The process gives more accurate and real colours and allows for more control of the colours in the image. It's this process, that gives the images the edge to make them what they are.
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