The Waiting Room

2016, video installation

On a claustrophobic stage draped in white cloth a shrouded figure moves, unseeing and mute like a somnambulant, in a pantomime verging on a nightmare, while wrestling with a white chair. A pathetic take on Jean Cocteau’s Parade? A roguish Waiting for Godot? The first page of an H.C. Andersen tale? If postmodernism can be imagined in an ahistorical way as a key stylistic category, whatever time or place, many older works suddenly take on a certain importance at the present time.

EXHIBITIONS 
2020 Screening at Doors Open 2023, Toronto
2020 Screening at Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden. More info here and here: https://www.hhs.se/en/outreach/sse-initiatives/art-initiative/-program-archive/screenings/gunilla-josephson
2019 As part of Undomesticated, Koffler Gallery, Toronto
2017 As part of Houses and Whispers: Gunilla Josephson, Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto
2016 As part of Houses and Whispers: Gunilla Josephson, Rodman Hall Art Centre, St Catharines