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Liane Lang employs a variety of inanimate objects and fabricated figures to construct images and videos that exist between narrative fiction and still-life composition. Set in spaces that appear contrived, and could be described as in themselves sculptural, the photographs represent a highly controlled, single view point on an installation. They extract from the elaborately inanimate, a moment of animacy, a subtle shift between the observation of a figure as form and as active agent. The figures in the work inhabit their environment like spectral presences, simulating touch and sensation, engaged deeply in mock reflection, standing in for the absent and the absent minded. They provide a vacancy for unselfconscious voyeurism, for watching nobody through the key hole.
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