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The image should induce the slow vertigo of recognizing that every surface of authority you trust — the badge, the bank counter, the uniform — can be perfectly replicated and hollowed out. The viewer should feel the uncanny sensation of standing in a corridor where reality has been cheaply but convincingly counterfeited, the way De Chirico's metaphysical paintings make familiar architecture feel like a trap. Informed by Giorgio de Chirico's disquieting interiors and Luis Buñuel's surrealist staging, the piece should make institutional trust feel as thin as a theatre flat.
A deep one-point perspective view down a long unlit institutional corridor in an abandoned six-storey building, rendered in the metaphysical painting style of Giorgio de Chirico transposed into a claustrophobic interior....