The Hyperreal Photographs That Must Be Seen to Be Believed

It’s not often that images of dirty studio floors and shelving units full of everyday detritus manifest as something that borders on the sublime. Which is why Manuel Franquelo’s exhibition at Michael Hoppen Gallery, titled Things in a Room: An Ethnography of the Insignificant, feels particularly special. At first glance, you might be fooled into thinking that the large-scale images hanging on the gallery’s walls are hyperreal paintings…