Teatro Degollado Guadalajara III 2015 - Candida Höfer
Teatro Degollado Guadalajara III, 2015

Candida Höfer



Box with C-print and book

Signed, numbered on a label

Edition: 100 Exemplars



In Candida Höfer’s “Teatro Degollado Guadalajara III 2015”, the seats of a theater remain empty. Höfer’s artistic interest focuses on culturally shaped spaces and the ways in which they enable, structure and influence human interaction. It is precisely the absence of people that makes these relationships visible. The arrangement of the seating directs lines of sight, distances determine proximity to the stage, and the architecture assigns each individual a place. The photograph thus reveals not only an unoccupied interior but also the spatial conditions that make communal experience possible. Despite the absence of visible figures, human presence remains inscribed in the architecture.

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