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May, 2002, Marc Räder, New Photographs
May 31 – August 24, 2002

Marc Räder (1966) is a German photographer who has been educated in Germany and in the US. He will be showing his new photographs in Gallery Christina Wilson from May 31nd to August 25th. The project is made on Majorca, and in the photographs he concentrates on how the tourist industry has transformed a beautiful island into a playground for rich golf tourists and sun enthusiasts. In spite of the promises of stopping building and regulating the tourism, about 6 million tourists land in Palma airport every year and an excessive amount of new tourist accommodations are being constructed. But if one as a tourist can abstract oneself from the massive exploitation of the island, it is still possible to experience Majorca as one of the most beautiful areas of nature in Europe. Marc Räder’s Majorca project is a kind of bitter-sweet tribute to this great number one holiday-island.

Marc Räder uses a photographic technique where the foreground and the background are out of focus whilst the middleground of the photography is very sharp. The effect of this is a strange distortion of reality which becomes strangely Lilliputian-model-like. Through Marc Räder’s lens Majorca becomes doll-like and grotesque.

This technique has also been used by Marc Räder in his earlier and internationally re-known project: Scanscapes where he deals with the desert cities which are placed in the outskirts of Los Angeles. Scanscapes like his Majorca photographs show a kind of synthetic world which we recognize in films like The Truman Show (where the principal character one day finds out that his life is a staged TV-show where millions of viewers watch him on the television every day) or Edward Scissorhand. It is the American dream which is based on the outer beauty, materialism and a perfect surface which interests and provokes Räder. In the Majorca photographs Räder makes a bridge between the American dream and the carefree richness of Majorca. And it is difficult to see if it is the real world or if it is a ”fake”.
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