Hotel rooms
Hotel rooms
Hotel rooms
Framed reproductions of paintings and landscape photographs adorn many a hotel room. The original often hangs in a museum. Although the reproduction shows an exact image of the original, it lacks the original’s appeal. In the hotel, the reproduction acquires a life of its own. This series frames the new context in which the reproduction finds itself.
Landscape with Tree, 2003 Chromogenic print, glass, wooden frame, 53 x 73 cm
Hotel rooms
Framed reproductions of paintings and landscape photographs adorn many a hotel room. The original often hangs in a museum. Although the reproduction shows an exact image of the original, it lacks the original’s appeal. In the hotel, the reproduction acquires a life of its own. This series frames the new context in which the reproduction finds itself.