Introduction

UCCA Edge presents Thomas Demand’s first comprehensive survey in China. 

Thomas Demand has spent the last two and a half decades bringing together his talents as both a sculptor and a photographer in an attempt to capture the uncanny stutter of history that lies at the root of our contemporary image culture. Encompassing approximately 60 photographs, films, and wallpapers that span the arc of his career, Thomas Demand: The Stutter of History will provide both an overview of the artist’s way of seeing the world as well as a lesson in how we might approach the onslaught of historical events that we consume through the world of images.

Thomas Demand: The Stutter of History will focus on four important areas of Demand’s work: “Uncanny Histories” focuses on his large-scale photographs of seemingly banal but historically significant anonymous scenarios; “Mysteries of Everyday Life” features his smaller scale "Dailies”, works constructed from images taken with his phone; “The Architectonic Impulse,” as seen in both his “Model Studies” series and in the use of wallpaper that he creates to give his photographic and sculptural practice a spatial and architectural dimension; and “Images that Move” focuses on his explorations of stop-motion filmmaking. The exhibition is curated by Douglas Fogle for the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography.

The exhibition will tour to Jeu de Paume, Paris, and furthermore to The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. 

A catalog of the exhibition, published by Mack Books, is available to order.

Thomas Demand
The Stutter of History
UCCA Edge
2F, No. 88 Xizang Bei Lu
Jing'an District, Shanghai
July 8 – September 4, 2022
www.ucca.org.cn