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Waiting rooms
From the series Non Places
Starting in the autumn of 2009 I began working on images which showed common conditions without following a narrative structure, as an exploration of what has been called Non Places by the french anthropologist Marc Augé.
He used this definition to describe all the places that are not significant enough to be considered places. They are spaces of transience, where there is not an historical significance and where people don’t relate one to the other.
The modern society is full of such places, where we are obliged to spend time. They are like empty identical boxes all over the world; places where time is suspended.
From the series Non Places
Starting in the autumn of 2009 I began working on images which showed common conditions without following a narrative structure, as an exploration of what has been called Non Places by the french anthropologist Marc Augé.
He used this definition to describe all the places that are not significant enough to be considered places. They are spaces of transience, where there is not an historical significance and where people don’t relate one to the other.
The modern society is full of such places, where we are obliged to spend time. They are like empty identical boxes all over the world; places where time is suspended.
But while these non descriptive, temporary shelters are easily forgotten on an individual basis they never the less elicit very clear feelings, sometimes of embarrassment, anguish, anxiety, annoyance.
Fascinated from these studies I worked on a series of drypoints representing waiting rooms and gazoline stations as an example of non places, where no real human activity takes place aside from trying to speed up that moment to go somewhere else.
I represented them empty, sad, and all similar: we can’t recognize where they are and what you should be waiting for in these rooms, leaving you a sense of alienation.
Dypoint
13 cm X 18 cm
