The cardboard cannabis lab: Thomas Demand's beautifully deceptive realities

From Saddam Hussein’s hiding place to the Stasi’s ransacked HQ, the German artist creates meticulous models of scenes – then photographs them. Now he’s moving on to the world of natureLast year, Thomas Demand made two large-scale photographs, Pond and Nursery, that at first seem to suggest two conflicting ideas of nature: the sublime and the scientific. The former, a nod to Monet, shows a constellation of yellow, circular water lilies on an expanse of blue water. The seco