(Pl. from intermezzo) Italian word literally meaning ‘interlude’. It is a short comic opera, often with a realistic plot and popular atmosphere, which was performed during the intermission of a serious opera.

Windows, roofs or balconies have always functioned (as we have seen throughout the history of art) as a separator between the inner (and personal) space and the outer (social) world. But also as a source of longing and freedom. Confinement and infinity. Immediacy and transience. Windows and balconies have been, and have remained, a recurring motif of artistic representation. Elements that reveal an external reality to us, that place us as voyeurs of everyday scenes or that serve as a symbol of a longing.