Mark Dorf
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Axiom & Simulation
2011
Axiom and Simulation examines the persistent transformation of the physical world into abstraction. As we translate our surroundings into images, systems, and symbols, the original referent becomes increasingly distant—fractured by layers of mediation. These abstractions, while derived from the material world, generate realities of their own: parallel systems that no longer point back to a stable source.
In this series, representation is not a mirror but a mutation—producing copies with obscured origins and uncertain fidelity. Axiom and Simulation dwells in this slippage, tracing how perceptual and technological transformations produce a reality unmoored from its referent, where meaning circulates without anchor.
Additional images available upon request.
Selected Exhibitions
2014 The New Art Center, Boston, MA
2014 Center For fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
2012 Harbor Gallery, New York, NY
2012 Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton, VA
Selected Publications
2015 Granta Magazine - Issue No. 131 - Cover
2013 Orion Magazine - Vol. 3 Issue No. 2
Plate #22, Archival Pigment Print, 32″x40″, 2011