My Travels Through the World on My Copy Machine
Dominique Teufen
Éditions Xavier Barral
English, French
Text by Stefano Stoll.
Hardcover
108 pages
240 x 190 mm
2019
ISBN 9782365112185
With the obsessive use of an office photocopier and the skilful appropriation of everyday objects, Dominique Teufen takes us on an extraordinary journey across the world. In this first monograph, her unknown, yet familiar landscapes, challenge our senses at every step of the way, challenging our imagination. Photography is not used to render a precise reality but to dupe us and question our certitudes. The use of familiar references convoke reality and misleads us ingeniously. By looking closely at these reconstructed worlds, reality becomes an illusion, inversely. Some landscapes are so realistic that we can’t believe that we have been misled; these elaborate images challenge our perception of reality and appearance. The narrative and imaginary aspect questioning the pure vision of documentary photography is still very much in question today, and this theme is handled by Dominique Teufen with a poetic yet simple aesthetic, in a both accurate and effective way.
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About the Artist
Dominique Teufen (b. 1975, Davos) is a Swiss artist who completed her BA in sculpture at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy Amsterdam in 2002. In the following years she lived, worked and exhibited her work in Melbourne, Zurich, London and New York. In 2010 she received her MA of Fine Arts at the Academy for Art and Design St. Joost in S’Hertogenbosch Holland. Dominique Teufen’s photographs play with illusions, perception and our photographic modified visual memory of how things suppose to look like.
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About the Publisher
Atelier EXB, also known as ‘Éditions Xavier Barral’ publishes works that address new forms of photography, contemporary art and sciences. Founded in 2002 by Xavier Barral, and taken over in 2020 by the five members of the team (Jordan Alves, Nathalie Chapuis, Yseult Chehata, Charlotte Debiolles and Perrine Somma), the publishing house conceives each book with great attention to both content and form. They seek to question the forms of photography, to bring to light artistic voices, to approach the major questions which innervate our contemporary societies through the image.
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