"Windows VI"

Original oil painting by Noemi Staniszewska

The Windows series is a pictorial tale of urban walks through the residential neighborhoods of the Hague. It is the result of observing the uncovered windows of Dutch houses, a recording of fragments of someone else's reality – intimate and yet exposed to public view.The window here is the boundary between private and foreign. It is a place where gazes meet, place of confrontation with what is outside. In this case, the situation of looking in the windows is also an expression of the emigration experience – the observer, although sees, remains outside of what he looks at, as always an outsider. Voyeurism is a manifestation of curiosity, perhaps longing, but at the same time it involves a violation of boundaries.