Living Room 

Iwo Zaniewski's painting offers a glimpse into a modern living room, rendered with stark simplicity. The objects, like furniture, are reduced to basic forms, yet these forms carry echoes of past representations of domesticity. Consider the colour red, so prominently displayed in the room. Throughout history, red has symbolised passion and vitality, appearing in tapestries and paintings to evoke strong emotion. Here, it covers a large area, suggesting a space charged with potential energy, yet also contained. It has been passed down through history, shifting in meaning. A psychoanalytic framework helps us understand how our collective memory and subconscious processes may have affected the production and interpretation of the motif. The arrangement of the objects in Zaniewski's painting conveys the tension and calm associated with modern life. This painting, therefore, is not just a snapshot of a room, but a stage on which our own emotional lives are played out. The non-linear progression of the symbol reminds us how it has resurfaced, evolved, and taken on new meanings in different historical contexts.