Todd Hido: Between the Two

Todd Hido: Between the Two at Stephen Wirtz Gallery. "...Known for assessing well-worn dwellings and landscapes, most specifically of the suburban and lackluster, Hido’s new work deals exclusively in the realm of the interior, both physical and personal. Hido pauses on the subtle interiority that manifests itself visually, providing select views into transient-styled bedrooms, kitchens, and dining rooms and untreated individuals posed in hotel rooms. Once intimate, now vacant rooms match portraits of complex individuals that maintain the same vacant feel as the articles left to degrade in the backdrop.
Between the Two, newly situates Hido within the Portrait genre, weaving evocative nudes of anonymous models together with equally emotive, intimate environments. The combination of the two form 'paper movies' —arrangements of images that create unfastened narratives. Scenes are sometimes tied together through formal criteria, such as light, or a particular tonal palette, and sometimes through imagined stories and characters that seem to inhabit the pages themselves."