Peephole

An installation for artist Brendan Fernandes’ performance event in the Getty Building on the High Line in New York City, studied in 2020

Peephole is an architectural intervention where dancers are revealed through a pair of circular apertures to an audience below, viewing their performance from outside. Dancers on individual stage platforms pull and wrap their bodies and environments with textile curtains, installed in the existing building’s window frames. The Getty’s glazed facade is obscured through fabric and vinyl overlays, producing transparent screens and opaque frames to view inward. The installation explores the voyeuristic gaze of public onlookers. Bodies are pressed against the glass as a visceral display where dancers have agency.

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Image Credit: Abigail Chang

Contributors: Brendan Fernandes, Abigail Chang