{"product_id":"mirage-hotel","title":"Mirage Hotel","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eA mirage produces the appearance of something that is either not there or radically different from how it is perceived. Set against the backdrop of Dubai and the United Arab Emirates, this unstable threshold between fiction and reality becomes a paradigm for the landscape, understood as both appearance and desire.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThe hotel assumes a central role: a place of arrival and departure, but also a suspended vantage point from which to observe the outside world. At once refuge and threshold, it embodies a mode of inhabiting in which identity is suspended and belonging remains temporary.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eMirage Hotel\u003c\/em\u003e investigates the transience of the gaze — a condition intrinsic to photography itself. Here, photography becomes a device for measuring impermanence: the image does not aim to document reality, but to register its instability. What remains is not certainty, but a residual trace.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePhotographs and texts by Francesco Villa\u003cbr\u003eEditing by Altana\u003cbr\u003eDesign by Francesco Villa\u003cbr\u003eArabic Lettering by Samer Bou Saleh\u003cbr\u003eTranslations by Rabii Brahim, Sofia Schartner\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e12x16 cm, 128 pages,\u003cbr\u003eSoftcover, Open Spine binding, Hotfoiled dust jacket\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinted in 600 copies\u003cbr\u003eISBN 979-12-812-3216-7\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Francesco Villa","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67599050375470,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2263\/4647\/files\/imgi_3_c1.jpg?v=1790841008","url":"https:\/\/3ssstudios.com\/products\/mirage-hotel","provider":"Bungee Space by 3standardstoppage","version":"1.0","type":"link"}