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On Collaboration: Hillerbrand+Magsamen

One of the challenging aspects of a long-term collaboration is adapting to life’s ever-changing circumstances and still creating in the midst of all its distractions. The team of Mary Magsamen and Stephan Hillerbrand are masters at brilliantly and continu

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The team of Mary Magsamen and Stephan Hillerbrand are masters at brilliantly and continually weaving the complexities of daily life into their work as they probe the essence of the suburban nuclear family. From fog enveloping their dinner table to a chronicle of a family trip to the moon (complete with a gift shop), their staged documentary work exposes the tenuous underpinnings of existence. We admire their practical impracticality as they hold the line between immersion and satire – bending, breaking, mending, taping, reordering, and illuminating life.