Nick Cave Live — Performer Close-Up on Concert Projection Screen

4 October 2017 · Paris

A large projection screen dominates a darkened concert hall, the rest of the venue swallowed by near-total darkness. On it, a close-up of Nick Cave — head bowed, lit from below — fills the frame with an intensity the stage distance alone could never deliver. The screen does the work of collapsing that distance: the performer is everywhere and nowhere at once, a figure projected into a room full of people who came specifically to be in the same space as him.