Open 4 - 19 February
We spend a lot of time in waiting rooms. At the doctors, at hospital, at Centrelink, at the Motor Registry, at bus stations and airport lounges. Anywhere where we are temporarily suspended in a state of attentive dependence. Unable to make independent decisions. Unable to get on with our lives. So that any interactions with others in the waiting room seem stilted and artificial. Any occupation is cursory and distracted.
We spend a lot of time in waiting rooms. At the doctors, at hospital, at Centrelink, at the Motor Registry, at bus stations and airport lounges. Anywhere where we are temporarily suspended in a state of attentive dependence. Unable to make independent decisions. Unable to get on with our lives. So that any interactions with others in the waiting room seem stilted and artificial. Any occupation is cursory and distracted.
But spare a thought for the massive waiting rooms in other people’s
lives: Refugee camps. Nursing homes. Cancer Clinics. Or in other people’s
heads: court cases, mental illness. Life is literally on hold.
In this group show, artists Deborah
Burdett, Renuka Fernando, Ro Murray/Mandy Burgess and Susannah Williams respond to these spaces of irresolution.
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| Ro Murray/Mandy Burgess Bridging in progress |