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• Christopher Page paints illusions on his flat, oil-painted canvases. He opens a dialogue between pictorial and architectural space, painting things that would normally be found in interiors.
• The life-sized blank mirror in a painted wooden frame lacks some realistic details – the textures and knots in the wood seem to have been missed out deliberately, as if Page wants to plant clues to hint at the illusion.
• Meanwhile a colourful painting of a painting in a frame opens an unnervingly paradox confrontation of trompe-l’oeil and modernist abstraction on a single plane.
• Page is interested in the illusions that surround us in everyday life – the design language of personal computers, the false marble textures of laminated Formica and the printed building wraps that problematize the built environment – signs of a perversion of modernism and its failing promise.