Thomas Demand
Thomas Demand's 2009 work Photoecke/Photobooth shows a photograph of his detailed paper replica of the photo room at the Stasi remand prison in Gera, whose condition he took from photos in a Spiegel report. Former inmates report regular and lengthy photo sessions, some of which were accompanied by an ominous humming noise. In 1989, a hidden X-ray machine was discovered there, aimed at the head height of those being photographed. When several former dissidents died of cancer, suspicions grew that they may have been exposed to X-ray cannons in Stasi prisons. With his work, Demand depicts the scene of the unsolved suspicious events, just as he shows the bathtub from Uwe Barschel's Geneva hotel room without the suicide victim.