The work of photographer Filip Dujardin plays like the “straight man” in a comedy sketch: the guy who sets up the joke so that someone else can deliver the punchline. Straight-faced yet anticipating the surprise of realising the impossibility of the architecture, Dujardin’s images allow viewers to finish the joke of the illusion he’s created.
Digital collages made from photos of real buildings, these images are part documentary, part fictional exercise. They allow us a view onto a world we can imagine inhabiting, unconstrained by the limitations of reality – a world that through the virality of the internet, the proliferation of the 24-hour news cycle and hop-on-hop-off disaster coverage can seem more overwhelming or ugly by the day. In this context, the escapism of Dujardin′s work is surely the root of its allure and the cause of its viral spread on the internet.
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