Le Madame is an ellusive temptress. It brings to mind the atmosphere prevelant in cabarets in Berlin under the Wiemer Republic, so alive with social turmoil; as if out of a Bob Foss movie or Luchino Visconti's 'Twilight of the Gods.' Le Madame is supposedly surrounded by an auro of the impropable and moral scandal.

It is most definitely a unique place, a transitive place, a locale that is at once a question, a locale that is a challenge in and of its' self. It requires a certain sort of courage to succumb to its' temptation, to come inside. Its' strength as a temptress lies in this ellusive strength. What we have here is a game between the hidden and the coming-out-of-hiding, between what is open and that which is closed, because one portion of Le Madame is hidden, marginal and another is inviting and open to the outside world, at times even venturing out. One such time was the 8th of March, during the protest marches organized on the streets of Warsaw. This sort of place, so replete with diverse meaning is partially open, partially closed and yet at the same time ostentatiously exposed was called heterotopia by Michel Foucault. Heterotopia is a type of actualized utopia. These are places where all other possible places of culture are represented, put in context, turned on their heads. They