Put this in your pipe and smoke it: you might understand it better

"Presenting-as" is thus interpreting, and both are synonymous with "representing." "Presentation-as" overlaps these terms while "presentation-to" picks out the demonstrative or performative aspect of representation/interpretation: the address to empirical spectators, the construction or mobilization of virtual spectator positions.

(Harry Berger in Fictions of the pose: Rembrandt against the Italian Renaissance. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000)

Read it again. And again. C'mon: just one more time.