Occupying piccalilli simultaneously across two solo exhibitions, Back of House by Chaney Diao and Front of House by Juliusz Grabianski each construct staged environments in which bodies, objects and viewers become implicated within shifting structures of control, performance and spectatorship. In both exhibitions, mediated erotic imagery, staged domestic settings, synthetic bodily substances and scripted social encounters produce a landscape of constructed experience. Relations between performer and audience, viewer and viewed, server and consumer continuously collapse and intersect.

These dynamics emerge in Front of House during the opening night, where visitors are incorporated into a filmed live performance directed by Juliusz Grabianski. The performance further unsettles distinctions between participation and observation, extending both exhibitions’ broader consideration of authorship, spectatorship and the staging of social relations.

Back of House brings together photography and…