The young generation of artists reinterpret the idea of real-life representation, by using the cameras to capture their subjects as they are, then twisting the pictures to create something that looks oddly real and surreal at the same time. “Netherlandish painters suddenly gained an eye for the ordinary things in their lives with still-life painting,” said Marcel Feil, deputy director of Foam. “If the artist was to transcend something from ordinary to extraordinary, he should paint it in a very extraordinary way. So there’s an interesting relationship between realism and artificiality, and between the artists and us.” This peculiar relationship of the real and surreal takes on multiple layers in contemporary photography, as seen in Kim Boske’s “Collection of Sleepings and Awakings I” (2008) a series of photos of flowers that look real, but are actually paper cut-outs of flowers printed in catalogs and photographs. “We believe that photographs are real because we recognize the things we see, but are they real?” asks the works, according to Feil. With works of 17 creative artists, including Melanie Bonajo, Marnix Goossens, Elspeth Diederix, Qui Yang and many others, visitors see a side of photography that blurs the borders of reality in a playful way.