Caroline SpaceAH 4110 – Photography in contemporary artA. GrundbergDecember 5, 2013REVISED ARTICLEAryn Simon was born in New York in 1975. Simon's photography is made up of a triad of equal elements: photography, design and text. His works examine the impracticality of complete knowledge and unlock the gap between image and text, where confusion arises and ambiguity is strong. Archive topics that don't “officially exist, didn't happen, and can't be seen. Others who possess this impulse generally write fiction. (Simon). Simon strives to photograph the impossible and the secrets we don't even know exist. She is predominantly a conceptual photographer whose photojournalistic work is process-oriented and layered. He often combines his large-format images with panels of text, confusing the linear formation of the visual sense and requiring a more thorough dissection of what is in the image. Michel Foucault gave us the death of fatherhood in a society that generates more artists than ever (Foucault). The attempt to expose language becomes an unreliable exercise in accurate representation through the act of writing. The images and texts are not complete individually; paradoxically the use of linguistic systems deconstructs meaning. However, this is the condition in which Simon creates much of his work: this changes reality. The most common critical writings on Simon's work define it within one or another mode of realism: hyperreal or aestheticized realism (Ulrich). Hyperreality is a notion in which what is considered real and fiction are effortlessly blended together so that there is no clear division between where one ends and the other begins. The layers within the image are often a representation of the display dictated by the exposure of secret locations and the disclosure of unrequited objects. Jean Baudrillard defines hyperreality as "the