Before Our Chance to Watch Ends

Privacy grows out of human solitude. It calls both for individuality and time alone, and for exchange with others. This double nature has created a deep tension in human life, one that takes on different meanings from one society to another.

Every culture reveals its idea of privacy through its architecture, its interiors, its clothing and even its everyday language. Today, in a world of advanced technology and countless means of communication, where cameras capture us even in our most private moments, privacy is more contested than ever. We seem to feel lonelier, yet find less time to be alone; even someone confined at home is present in public through social media.

Privacy is the invisible distance between being alone and being among strangers.