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“Every home is a secret and private world. People do things in private that they could not do or explain in public” Gene D.Philips

The home, the house, the domestic space itself is not visible for everyone, but only for those who live in it or who are invited to live in it. In this space, the life of the inhabitants goes by in a privately and intimately, creating an incredibly familiar and comfortable environment. The interrelation between the space and us is stronger here, in the domestic sphere. The environment hosts us warmly and frees us from any inquisitive look. We yearn for some social distance with the rest of the people when we are in our home, for a distance that we all have to keep when we introduce ourselves as beings belonging to a society.

Following the thread of the Gene D. Philips’ quote, the voyeurism is one of the strongest ways to break the law of the distance. The one who furtively looks and spies makes the windows of the inhabitants become almost T.V. screens. The need of knowing what happens around us and, at the same time, the lack of events of our own that make us get out of our own houses and look inside them instead of inside anyone else’s. Being supposedly private, it is not completely inaccessible, since it flanks the extremes of the privacy-community dialectic, in which there are intermediate situations. It is the paradigm of the public against the private sphere.


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