NAKED WINDOWS
Naked Windows is an immersive 360-degree video work by Anne Fehres and Luke Conroy. The title refers to the social phenomena of houses without curtains, a common trait of homes in Dutch cities. Exploring this idea, in the video the audience occupies the role of a voyeur, invited by the artists to peer ‘backstage’ into their personal interior spaces. In this role, the audience must negotiate their own curiosity and voyeurism while exploring the boundaries between public and private, truth and fiction.
This immersive video has been made by the artist duo Anne Fehres & Luke Conroy while participating in the virtual residency organised by The European Union National Institutes for Culture during the COVID-19 pandemic. Naked Windows is a humorous reflection on the artist's reality today and is captured in their own intimate living spaces. The scenes are presented as modern still lifes—arrangements of daily life objects combined with objects from the artist's imagination.
The virtual residency is a joint project of the EUNIC Cluster in St. Petersburg in cooperation with St. Petersburg Art Residency (SPAR). The project is funded by EUNIC, the Consulate General of the Netherlands, the Danish Cultural Institute, the Goethe Institute, the Institut Français, the Finnish Institute and the Instituto Italiano di Cultura in St. Petersburg. Curator: Anastasia Patsey.