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. Link here. More info here
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