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“Daguerre’s dioramas transported viewers ’elsewhere’. They often reproduced political events or natural disasters. The tarps photographed by Christoph Sillem in Daguerre, by contrast, cloak a present referent with its perfect copy (…). Sillem here pays homage to Daguerre, while also revealing one significant face of contemporary Paris. With his photographs he re-instills, into an art of illusion that has been reduced to merely serving a function, a multi-valent, magical charm.“ Sonia Voss, curator and author

Christoph Sillem (b. 1965) is a German photographer who has lived in his adopted home …