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Empty Stages photographic project by Tim Etchells, presenting spaces of anticipation

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Solvay Conference 1927, including Max Planck and Albert Einstein

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The Great Breath, Lenore G. Tawney, 1964

“Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an independent reality” ― Hermann Minkowski

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https://thewanderingwanderluster.com/stairway-to-heaven-karlskirche-church/

Karlskirche, Vienna. Lift assembled during the restoration of the dome providing an opportunity to view the dome at eye level rather than from below.

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'Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see' - Martin Luther King, Jr

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Andrea Pozzo, La voûte de l'église San Ignazio (Rome), 1685.

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Dolly the sheep. The first mammal to be cloned from stem cells - an exact replica, more valued than the ewe of which it was cloned, a demonstration of scientific innovation and advancement

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Hymn, 1999, by Damien Hirst.

Where the replica is more valued - exact replica of Humbrol Limited’s Young Scientist Anatomy Toy Set which sold for £14.99, while Hirst’s sculpture sold for $1.6 million.

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Mosaic replica of the Last Supper by Giacomo Raffaelli in the Minoritenkirche, Vienna. 9.18 x 4.47m

Reconstructed memory, an illusion. Better preserved than the original and not punctured by cut doorway

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Escaping Criticism, oil on canvas by Pere Borrell del Caso, 1874

Trompe l'oeil, breaking out of the frame, blurring boundary between the art and reality. Inspiration for Vienna collage exploring threshold between the real and the illusion, with aspects of city emerging from baroque frame

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https://www.artland.com/exhibitions/invisibles-d7f2b2

‘There is a whole world of invisibility hidden in plain sight’ - Tavares Strachan

Strachan’s Encyclopaedia of Invisibility: a personal archive of artefacts, people, artworks and other phenomena difficult to see, forgotten, or hard to find.