Backdrop: Grounding the Spectacle

2015, Mona Casey
Image series

Backdrop: Grounding the Spectacle, is made up of a series of appropriated photographic image found on the internet. The selection represents events of public punishment from the vantage point of a spectator – crowd. In this sequence of digitally altered and re-constituted images, the victims, including Marie Antoinette, Louis XVI, Charlotte Corday, Georges Cadoudal, and Maximilien Robespierre are removed, creating a void for any one of us to fill.

Installation, Backdrop Grounding The Spectacle, Series of Digital Projections on screen with wooden frame

Marquis de Lally-Tollendal Execution, Digitally altered Image, Projection on wooden structure, variable sizes.

Tudor Execution, Digitally altered Image, Projection on wooden structure, variable sizes.

Maxresdefault, Digitally altered Image, Projection on wooden structure, variable sizes.

Execution of Marie Antoinette, Digitally altered Image, Projection on wooden structure, variable sizes.

Louis XVI Decapitation, Digitally altered Image, Projection on wooden structure, variable sizes.

Game work, Digitally altered Image, Projection on wooden structure, variable sizes.

Exécution de Gosson sur la place d'Arras, Digitally altered Image, Projection on wooden structure, variable sizes.

Louis XVI Guillotine, Digitally altered Image, Projection on wooden structure, variable sizes.

Marie-Antoinette Execution, Digitally altered Image, Projection on wooden structure, variable sizes.

Execution of Robespierre, Digitally altered Image, Projection on wooden structure, variable sizes.

Installation shots

Installation, Backdrop Grounding The Spectacle, Series of Digital Projections on screen with wooden frame