Loneliness Pretending to be Absent

'2020. Peoples and nations, like exasperated neighbours stuck in a lift, are looking for explanations and where to place the blame (as ever), but also for a way out and salvation. How could even a crumb of private life be saved? This question bothers me, as I find it to be existential for all the arts. For years now it has not been easy with that expanding intrusion into all spheres of privacy, made worse by the pandemic, in a crowded and even more inconvenient world. Life in pieces or a piece of life? This is what makes me write. I am offering a piece of life.' Marieta Piegeler