REAR WINDOW 2021
Window installation
307 digital photos on inkjet transparent foils
8 double windows each 163 x 45 cm
Pop-Up Gallery Atelier Zug
Gipsstrasse 3, Berlin
Rear Window takes its name from the 1954 film of the same name directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The video, created during the Berlin lockdown, turns isolation into an act of virtual communication. Hundreds of mutual friends’ Facebook profile images were downloaded, edited, and printed on transparent film, then arranged on the artist’s window in overlapping layers.
The installation merges digital intimacy with urban distance, the online and the real coexisting in fragile transparency. Faces blend with reflections of the city outside, creating a living archive of connection and separation. Jacomella Bonola’s work thus redefines the window as both barrier and bridge, questioning how community survives in mediated form.
Credits: © Bernd Hiepe