directed reality in the waiting room

‘Directed reality in the waiting room’(2017) photograph documenting an improvised performance which took place in the waiting room of the passport office in Guayaquil-Ecuador.

As I waited for hours and hours among other people for our passport request to be completed. I imagined a subtle action of individual agency within the burocratic system. 

Within the waiting room there were three people waiting with a similar posture, creating an image through repetition. I approached other four people and asked if we could join them in that specific posture and create a choreography of waiting. 

With the title I want to point out not only at the directions I gave for the improvised performance, but all the other elements that were already directing us, like the queue barriers, the security guard, and the rows of unidirectional chairs.



This work has been shown in:

1. 11 Hours of Clouds
1.2.2025 — 1.3.2025
Curated by Pieter Augustijn and Ruby de Vos
Art is Book
Groningen, NL
photo by: Robert Mulder

2. are my children are my parents
18.6.2022 — 25.7.2022
curated by Dee Hehewerth, Tirza Kater, Tim Mathijssen
Marwan
Amsterdam, NL
photo by: Franz Mueller Schmidt