When the familiar begins to weigh on us, our perception also begins to shift. The familiar loses its innocence, and the cozy becomes an echo of a latent threat. But it is not the world that is changing—it is our relationship to it.
In Skwieß, Alfredo Barsuglia opens up a state between protection and pressure, proximity and unease. A space whose interior might bring back memories of one’s own childhood in the 1980s is torn from its foundations of comfort and left to its potential fragility.
