Louisa Vergozisi - parallels

in een paralel leven

staat ze nog hier

ze kijkt naar de spelende kinderen

in het park
daar

tegenover

in een paralel wereld

is zijn nog een kind

een kind
dat speelt in het park daar

tegenover

de nacht valt als sneeuw

de straten worden koud

het kleine lichtje brandt

de moeder geeft haar kind

een n a c h t k u s

de zon komt op

de tijd voorbij

de kamer is leeg
het kleine lichtje is w e g

in a parallel life she is still here she watches the children playing in the park there at the other side in a parallel world she is still a child a child playing in the park there at the other side the night falls like snow the streets get cold the little light burns the mother gives her child a n i g h t k i s s the sun rises the time passes the room is empty the little light is g o n e

p a r a l e l l e n // p a r a l l e l s

2024

Residency Westenwind Kracht 12, Horst NL

For the artist residency of Westenwind Kracht 12, I stayed for 12 days in an apartment that will soon be broken down in the Norbertuswijk in Horst (a subcity in the region of Northen-Limburg, NL).

As an outsider and observer, I walked around becoming a part of the everyday life in the neighbourhood.
I arrived there with no expectations, but quickly became fascinated by the different cultures and stories, and especially by the openness of the residents to share their experiences with me, a stranger.

I felt like the apartment and also the neighborhood were my home, as if I had never left. Now that the residency is over, it feels like I was never there. Only the images I took prove that I was really there, that I walked around, talked to people and lived with the neighborhood.

The images show that I was there and forever captured a part of life there in this special time of ephemerality.

The photo series Parallels, which was created during my stay in the neighborhood, brings together the different lives of the residents of the Norbertus area. Parallels reveals a poetic picture of the various cultures and realities that exist in the neighborhood, but do not know about each other and therefore run parallel to each other.