
Soft Cover, English, Thread Stitching, 160 Pages, 2006
OLAF BREUNING - Home
Home assembles staged photographic works and related installations that examine identity, cultural stereotyping and the construction of authenticity within global image culture.
Rather than documenting lived environments, the work fabricates exaggerated scenarios that reveal how ideas of “home” are mediated through tourism imagery, consumer aesthetics and mass media narratives.
Costume, gesture and mise-en-scène are deployed as analytical tools. By heightening artificiality and visual excess, the images expose the mechanisms through which cultural difference and belonging are performed. Humor operates as a structural device, yet the underlying inquiry addresses the instability of representation and the circulation of clichés in a globalized visual economy.
The book situates these works within a broader investigation of spectacle, projection and mediated identity, foregrounding the tension between surface playfulness and conceptual critique.


