Wolfgang Tillmans (b. 1968) has contended with the boundaries of the photographic medium since the early 1990s. In his ongoing paper drop series, photo paper acts as both material and subject matter: the sheet is folded onto itself in a delicate teardrop shape and photographed with a very shallow depth of field.

Tillmans brings together five paper drops in this installation designed for four walls, allowing their similarities and differences to resonate with one another. The images appear both abstract and representational, self-reflexively acknowledging the medium’s physicality and ephemerality.