“Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see.” - Rene Magritte

The Back Wall explores the narrative and spatial roles of walls in photography and architecture, drawing inspiration from Louis Daguerre’s diorama and its inherent double-sidedness. The course unfolds in two parts: first, students reinterpret historical paintings through staged photo reportage; second, they reimagine the back wall within constructed, invented realities.

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My photograph engages a mirror composition - on one side, a translated mystery; on the other, deep space. Within layered fictions, reflections distort and multiply, collapsing the boundary between image and referent. Referencing Baudrillard and Magritte’s Not to Be Reproduced, my project interrogates image production and reproduction by reframing the corridor as a wall that embodies the duality between recreated fiction and original copy.

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Through a designed dual gaze at opposite ends of the corridor, the flattened camera image fractures into geometric layers, where objects and scenes from the painting—projected onto the backside through orthographic projection - are encountered sequentially as one moves through the space.