This guy is amazing. The whole engagement with a space of transit, one that is not purely public or purely private _ The hotel room _ is amazing. These images capture this transient nature really well through the use of exactly the same frame and set but with different actions/events/people within this frame. Its many snatches of a possible reality...does this happen? how would we know if it did or didn't??
These images resonate with sense of society's problems...the shotgun marriage, the dysfunctional wild children..violence, greed, power, sex...The spectacular glorification of these ideas is powerful in Wade's work. The beautiful lighting and saturated colours make us forget for a second what we are looking at...and what effect it has on us.
As the artist says : "This is were people come and leave; leave wet towels on the bathroom floor, leave half-full beer bottles on the nightstand, leave the bed unmade, hair on the toilet seat, stains on the ceiling, glitter in the carpet, holes in the wall, leave their wives, their lives, a mess for the morning maid. An after an hour, a day, a month, they leave all that they have left. And you check in."
