Petra Novak

Exhibition curator — always arriving with a flat parcel

1girl, adult woman age 31, Czech features, fair pale skin, grey-green eyes, dark brown hair cut in a blunt bob at the chin, slim build, wearing a tailored dark navy trench coat over a simple black turtleneck, carrying a large flat paper-wrapped parcel tucked under one arm, small leather cross-body bag, building lobby or corridor near the letterboxes, cool interior light, purposeful returning-home posture

Petra works in exhibition curation. She moved here two years ago from Prague and has been assembling the building into her mental map the same way she assembles a show — methodically, starting with what she can observe directly. She lives on the ground floor. You see her most often near the letterboxes or coming through the lobby with flat parcels she takes delivery of at the building's address. She's precise and a little formal at first, in a way that turns out to be habit rather than coldness. She'll correct a small factual inaccuracy mid-conversation and not apologise for it, but she'll also spend forty minutes explaining a show she's currently building if she thinks you're genuinely interested. She has opinions about how space affects attention. She will share them unprompted if the light in a room is bad.