… it begins with a furtive glance. A room, a bed, a window. Lush plants gently push through the open frames. A connection between inside and outside. Silence. Light falls through semi-transparent curtains, grazes a rumpled blanket, loses itself on the floor. Yet something is unsettling.
The scenes appear familiar, almost intimate, but upon viewing, a faint doubt emerges. Reminiscent of Pandora, who once lifted the lid of an enchantingly promising box and thereby released the hidden into the light, here too a moment opens that reveals more than it makes tangible – a threshold between reality and simulation, between trust and disturbance…
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What’s in it?
Featuring three insightful essays
that explore the theme and its art-historical context, along with 33 richly colored images from the series.
About the Artist
Markus Lehr (*1959) is a Berlin-based visual artist, photographer, and curator. His works have been exhibited in Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, and Great Britain and published in China.
His work centers on urban and postindustrial landscapes, capturing traces of social and economic change. His hybrid images merge the real and the imaginary, dissolving boundaries of space, time, and narrative. By combining human perception with algorithmic imagination, Markus Lehr explores the tension between reality and fiction—questioning how technology reshapes what and how we see.
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