Thomas Hirschhorn (b. 1957, Switzerland) – one of the major contemporary artists who use installation as an artistic medium. He is inspired by the present-day information and commercial landscape, whose visual excess, magnitude and chaos are the artist’s main interests. The material he uses for his works is the “waste” of the world of contemporary consumption, of which he is both an observer and an illustrator. The artist continues his unique perception of the world in his works on paper. These are collages where, compiling selected fragments of reality, he creates a so-called factoid suspended between truth and fiction, preserving at the same time the dominant features of the surrounding reality.