The Fourth Wall

The series draws on images of well-known international theatres taken from a vantage point accessible only to the technicians and actors who work there, revealing the complex technical mechanisms required to create the illusion of a fourth wall separating us from the space of representation and illusion – a fourth wall we know to be responsible for the particular way in which our reality, our desire, and our subjectivity have been shaped since the dawn of European modernity.

Credits

The Fourth Wall (Berliner Ensemble, Staatstheater Stuttgart, Neue Flora Hamburg)
Photographic series, 2011-2015

The Fourth Wall (Thalia Cage Schauspiel Hannover Cage)
Photographic series, 2013-2016

Klaus Frahm

Klaus Frahm lives and works in Hamburg. Born in 1953, he studied Social Anthropology and Journalism. Since 1980, he has worked as a photographer. The main focus of his work is architecture, occasionally with political-ethical or social undertones. Since 1976, Klaus Frahm’s work has been exhibited and published internationally, featuring in prominent collections such as the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg, the Yokohama Museum of Art, the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris, the Polaroid International Collection in Cambridge, and the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montréal, among others.

www.klaus-frahm.de