Artist statement: Based on the early painting technique known as trompe l’oeil where architectural spaces, still-lives, or objects are rendered in painstaking realism, this ‘trick of the eye’ is replaced here with the ‘camera’s eye’ to seamlessly replicate my studio in a scale of 1:1. Rendered as two-dimensional photographic reproductions mounted onto a three-dimensional structure, this recreation offers both a physical and illusionary experience of my workspace. The ‘Kunstkammer’ as I have called it, is installed with actual objects and ephemera - postcards, invitations, books, a maquette of the studio construction, the pin board from my studio with preparatory sketches, as well as the physical folders containing research and documentary material in the development of work.

Anne Zahalka is represented by ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne and Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney

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