The Backstage collection is mainly inspired by the 50s and 60s. The artist wanted to pay tribute to this period for several reasons: above all, it is a period when in the mentality it was a real liberation. On all aspects: on mentalities, on the liberation of bodies, on sexual liberation, on the liberation of morals. After centuries where men and women were imprisoned in their bodies, where the body was demonized, this collection is a beautiful tribute to that time, when we were freeing ourselves.

On the Backstage collection, Idan Wizen used two graphic elements: first a black and white checkerboard, which was placed on the floor, and then a chaise longue with stripes. It was in a first point to have a game of perspective and a game of contrasts very interesting graphically. The second point was to evoke a duality: a duality of the world of the time, very binary, very marked. A time when there were far fewer shades of gray than today, where today’s fights are much more complex, certainly less clear-cut than back then. And then, the last point is to make the different characters evolve like on a game of chess, like on a chessboard where we were going to move over the checkerboard.

Backstage is the 9th collection of “Who’s That Nude in the Living Room?” art project which aims to constitute the largest photographic series ever made representing humanity as it is, in its most natural state, its nudity and its diversity. this concept of photographic art aims to bring together thousands of models, volunteers of all ages and from all social categories to constitute a huge gallery of portraits of men and women of today. These photographs, in their multitude and the originality of each one of them, their dynamism and their naturalness, show to universal human beauty, far beyond the restrictive socio-cultural and aesthetic criteria of our time.