Julia Steinigeweg (*1987) deals with
the future inability to distinguish between reality and simulation. Her
photographs are dystopian stagings of futuristic-seeming scenes and
moments in Singapore, and first reveal their fictitiousness upon closer
examination: a hammer made of wood, a firmament consisting of LEDs, or
the robot-lookalike of its creator Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann - all of them
masterpieces of deception. Supplemented with excerpts from
conversations with an app that imitates the linguistic behaviour of the
person opposite, Steinigeweg makes the clear boundaries between levels
of reality blur.


Text in English and German.