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From Rhizome Artbase
Based on a journey to Morocco, Mirage examines the assumptions underlying leisure travel to an "exotic" location and the resulting distortion of reality engendered by romantic expectation. Contradictory narratives exposing a web of economic, social, historical, and psychological realities are embedded in ostensibly neutral tourist photos to challenge conventional readings of vacation snapshots and explore aspects of voyeurism and escapism.