"The Domestic Stage opens with two images. The first is of queer British artist Jesse Glazzard and his then-partner Nora Nord in their London flat in 2019, dressed in costumes fashioned from McDonald's boxes and plastic corner shop bags. The second is a still from a recent season of Keeping Up With the Kardashians, which sees Kim Kardashian surrounded by endless rails of clothes in her museum-like wardrobe in Los Angeles."
"Seemingly worlds apart, the two images have more in common than you might think. Both are acts of performance that reveal how the home is no longer simply a place of private reprieve, but a stage to enact ideas of fantasy, status and desire - and not just for celebrities or rising artists. With phones in hand, anyone can now perform on their own domestic stage, pushing swells of curated interiors on our feeds."
Domestic interiors serve as active stages for performance, aspiration, intimacy and social signaling within contemporary fashion imagery. Photographic practice and popular culture place personal spaces alongside garments as visible markers of status and desire. The trajectory spans the 1990s to the present, accounting for internet emergence and Covid-era shifts that remapped image-making. The field intersects artists and photographers with fashion practitioners, including Takashi Homma, Sarah Jones, Clifford Prince King and Ottilie Landmark. Everyday phone photography and curated domestic feeds have democratized staged interiors, broadening who can perform and how domesticity shapes cultural identity.
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