Part of Between Lines, Atelier 35, Bucharest

Waiting and memory are essential components of the phenomenology of the journey that takes place in the station waiting area. During waiting, we relate to events that we expect to happen in the future in relation to memories of what has happened in similar situations, thus maintaining a close relationship between waiting and memory. This kind of waiting reveals a slowing down of one’s pace, a pause in movement and time. We have the certainty of departure or arrival at an agreed time beforehand. We wait for an event whose occurrence is certain, and departure/arrival times become secure links between present and future. The collective expectation (especially with regard to the socio-economic situation in the Valea Jiului region) of a different kind of future is not a certainty, but rather a hope. An expectation of something that is not coming. The project proposes an analysis from a personal perspective, linked to the interest in better understanding how we relate to different spaces, but also from a political perspective of the idea of waiting, generating connections between waiting at an individual level and collective waiting. Part of Between Lines exhibition at Atelier 35, Bucharest