[Extimacy]

The repositioning of elements of private lives into public view to produce feedback.

The desire to reveal some aspects of the inner self.

Svela shows a strong duality by its presence of deep interiority in its exteriority. Constant production, which gives form to desire and takes from desire its form, constructs central inner cores. Thus are revealed at its boundaries in the shape of facades. The facades create contours, places of protection and revealing. Svela is a city of forced encounters. One cannot be private in a public space.

Production

a work presented to the public

(as on the stage or screen or over the air)

the act or process of producing

total output especially of a commodity or an industry

Feedback

The transmission of evaluate or corrective information about an action, event or process to the original or controlling source also: the information so transmitted.

Modern man is alienated from himself, from his fellow men and from nature. His main aim is profitable exchange of his skills, knowledge, and of himself. Life has no principle except the one of fair exchange, no satisfaction except the one to consume.

one is vain, unreflective, insolently superficial, almost mute. It may have no inner life at all. As it morphs from small-town to worldly metropol, and surrenders to the forces of progress, it desires perfection: to show a facade, serene and smooth.

one has a tormented history. Several times it decayed, then rose again, always keeping the first facades as a desire of splendor. Everything that could be taken from where it came, was put in another place and produced for a different use. It was all there, merely arranged in a different order.

Only this is known for sure for the two: a given number of facades are shifted within a given space, at times submerged by a quantity of new products, at times worn out and not replaced; the rule is to shuffle then try to assemble them.

Stories of transformation and production, of what it means to see and to be seen.