LAURA FREUND

SOUVENIRS FROM TOMORROW

These photos take us on a journey across beautiful surfaces and uncomfortable truths. What if our best memories are made of plastic? The pictures look like typical vacation motifs; but if you look more closely, you will recognize the fake: artificial landscapes, synthetic cacti, staged nature. They play with the aesthetics of mass tourism and the longing for an ideal world. But what is shown is a future in which real nature has become so rare that it has to be reconstructed, recreated and sold — as an experience, as a backdrop, as an illusion. These motifs are not a warning; they are a possible souvenir.

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