RELATION
Newspaper, variable dimensions, Krems, 2015
This window glass installation was created during my residency at the Krems AIR program. The starting point was the expansive windows of my studio, through which I often gazed out onto the city. Observing the world from a distance brought to mind Gaston Bachelard’s The Poetics of Space (1958), in which the house becomes a metaphor for safety and the rooms express facets of our inner self.
According to Bachelard, we shape our interiors based on our desires and needs, creating a space where we feel free. The attic, for instance, becomes a place to hide things—like the unconscious—while the basement harbors our fears. But what, then, is the window?
The window occupies a threshold between the personal and the public. When we look out, we engage with a space that connects the internal and the external—a site of contemplation, where dreams, ambitions, and anxieties merge. The window becomes our eyes, our awareness of reality, through which we watch the world and its unfolding events—sometimes with hope, sometimes with fear.
The view itself may remain unchanged, but once we become aware of distant events—often through the news—we begin to overlay the landscape with emotions, concerns, and projections. Newspapers, a transient material discarded daily, carry these distant narratives into our lives.
In this installation, I cut images and headlines from daily newspapers and applied them directly to the window. Through this act, the cityscape becomes filtered through media discourse. As we observe the outside world through these headlines, we are invited to reflect: What global issues echo in our own community? How do the ever-shifting cycles of news shape our perception of the world—and of ourselves?
