"Trust Me"

C-print on aluminum

signed (ink), lable with titel, year, edition on verso

For this series, life-like plants of different sizes made of various artificial materials were placed in front of a neutral white background, photographed, and then printed in original size. The photographs simultaneously reference and contradict the aesthetics of advertising imagery and its sophisticated symbiosis of enticement and manipulation: the plants are made to 'pose' in all their beauty, proffering themselves as propitious goods. But it is all a deceit, for in fact they represent nothing but surrogate nature, a mass-produced article, and a decorative element.
(Robert F. Hammerstiel)