Fotoecke / Photobooth, 2009 (left)

C-Print, Diasec

The work shows an image of a photo center in the political prison in Gera. The inmates were photographed regularly. Years after the prison was closed, someone noticed that a striking number of the detainees suffered from leukemia. A subsequent investigation unearthed that hidden behind the curtain was another photographic device, an x-ray apparatus, which had been used without the optics, probably emitting radiation unhindered and contaminating the inmates. 

Heldenorgel, 2009 (right)

C-Print, Diasec

A memorial set up in 1931 for the victims of World War I in Kufstein, Austria, was later reinterpreted as a memorial for all victims of war. It is not made of stone or words, it is an organ: the Heroes' Organ. Every day at twelve, the song of the old comrades "Die alten Kameraden" rang out through the valley. The memorial was recently demolished. Demand's work deals with different ways of remembering and the question how, in the course of several years or decades, it can sometimes change.

Photo © Studio Hans Wilschut