Bright Star

Found and appropriated photographs from the internet are the basis of Thomas Galler's work _Bright Star_. The photographs of Egyptian and American fighter jets and helicopters in the area of the Pyramids of Giza were first produced in December 2010 in the form of a 10-piece postcard set in Cairo and circulated through souvenir shops and the Cairo Documenta just a few weeks before the Egyptian revolution. With the postcard as an image carrier, the information content of the depicted is turned into a touristic-commercial one; the military propaganda machine of Egypt and the United States are presented and ironically reflected. By recycling the images and the conversion into a different context, Galler opens up new contexts. He refers to the instrumentalization of images and the consequent control over the production of meaning.