Artist: Adrian Fish

     
  

Staged 1-3, 2007, 48" x 48", c-print

Staged 11-1, 2007, 48" x 48", c-print

Staged 2-1, 2007, 48" x 48", c-print

Staged 13-1, 2007, 48" x 48", c-print

Staged 14-1, 2007, 48" x 48", c-print

Staged 14-2, 2007, 48" x 48", c-print

Staged 10-1, 2007, 48" x 48", c-print

Staged 14-3, 2007, 48" x 48", c-print

 

The Staged project documents performative spaces directed towards the spectator seating area. Each respective environment is devoid of viewers, suggesting the pregnant moment before an anticipated spectacle. The absence of an audience altogether nevertheless suggests their presence. The similarity of perspective throughout the series invites the viewer to contemplate the architectural aspects of each setting. The inversion of the traditional role of actor-as-exhibitionist and audience as voyeur alludes to the subjective and constructed nature inherent in all photographs.