Thomas Demand's *Poll* presents a meticulously constructed photographic tableau depicting a fabricated voting station, rendered entirely from paper and cardboard before being captured as a large-scale chromogenic print mounted on Diasec. The work blurs the boundary between reality and simulation, inviting viewers to question the authenticity of documentary images and the systems of democracy they represent. Demand's signature method of building and then destroying his models leaves the photograph as the sole surviving artifact, imbued with an unsettling tension between presence and absence.