Coming along with the innate individuality that characterizes us, the right to privacy has always been a concern for human beings. In 1967, Alan Westin describes privacy as the claim of individuals to determine for themselves when, how, and to what extent information about them is communicated.
However, as Edward Snowden revealed in 2013, government and private companies are fruitfully using our personal data to monitor us. The digital age and the amount of information constantly collected and stored has blurred such persistent values. In a society addicted to smartphones and watched over by cameras using facial recognition, even our home is not a safe haven anymore.
The installation reminds us that there is a possibility to disconnect and enjoy privacy for a short or a long moment. This retreat zone, a haven for minds free of digital advertisement, uses the aesthetic of the captcha to protect itself from machine like intruders and let us forget about the digital age for an instant.