James Casebere – Fugitive

James Caseberes' photographic works depict architectural motifs such as monotonous housing estates, flooded corridors of luxurious villas, bare interiors of prisons, Moorish and Muslim architecture, the underground canal system of Bologna, and the Jewish ghetto in Venice.

But what appears real at first glance is artificially created: Caseberes' works are photographs of detailed, self-made architectural models in which imagined, fictitious scenes are arranged. In this way, he creates images that seem to hover between the fleeting and the sublime, between realism and fiction.

For the first time, Casebere is also presenting notebooks, collages and Polaroid studies that reveal the creative process – from the various stages of production to the finished individual image.