Le Printemps
2020
In The Invisible Wall (1963), Marlen Haushofer tells the story of a woman inexplicably trapped behind a transparent, impenetrable barrier. In the video game Assassin's Creed (2007), white smoke screens define city boundaries inaccessible to the player, teasing a glimpse of what lies beyond. These semi-permeable walls echo those that separated us for months. Like a cell membrane, they divided us to protect us, isolating yet maintaining connection.
Screens became the new walls, omnipresent and indispensable. They linked us through control, surveillance, and hypnotic exchanges—sterile, germ-free, yet unrelentingly solitary. These glowing windows defined our existence in a vast collective prison, where without them, nothing could function.
But what will endure from this upheaval? What sociological and existential legacy will these walls leave behind? Will screens remain our lifelines, or have they become the invisible walls of a new era?
