waiting ... still waiting, 2020
Dimension: 6 banners, each 72"x24"
Material: Vinyl with grommets
Photo credit: Mathieu Léger
Drone footage: Lucas Morneau
In the fall of 2020, I answered an intriguing open call for submissions for Umbrella Projects initiated by a partnership with New Brunswick galleries, the Owens Art Gallery and Struts Gallery “in order to facilitate off-site, in-print, online, and onscreen programming during the COVID-19 pandemic”. https://umbrellaprojects.ca/
I was thinking about the concept of waiting…still waiting for a long time and considering various forms and media to express it. The Umbrella Projects’ open call for submissions seemed like the perfect opportunity to realise this idea. I often use text in my work because I am fascinated by the expressive power of language. When I learned English at the age of five, I remember repeating the sound of new words, rolling my tongue around the unfamiliar shapes and sounds and trying to visualize them.
from the Umbrella Projects website:
Waiting… still waiting, a temporary public art installation by artist Yvonne Singer. This project consists of six banners installed at intervals on Sackville’s York and Lorne Streets. Each banner sequence starts with the word “waiting,” in handwritten script, followed by a second banner that reads “still waiting.” These open-ends phrases, inspired by the phenomenon of subvocalization (silent, internal speech), evoke a wide range of associations. In the artist’s words, “Waiting…. still waiting encapsulates the current moment of the pandemic and the feeling of being in a state of suspended animation; waiting to get test results, waiting for a vaccine, waiting for the end of the pandemic and the restrictions to our daily lives. So much of our lives involves waiting, from the mundane waiting in line at the grocery store or waiting for the rain to end, to significant waiting, like waiting for the results of a pregnancy test or a cancer diagnosis… We are endlessly waiting for something….”
Dimension: 6 banners, each 72"x24"
Material: Vinyl with grommets
Photo credit: Mathieu Léger
Drone footage: Lucas Morneau
In the fall of 2020, I answered an intriguing open call for submissions for Umbrella Projects initiated by a partnership with New Brunswick galleries, the Owens Art Gallery and Struts Gallery “in order to facilitate off-site, in-print, online, and onscreen programming during the COVID-19 pandemic”. https://umbrellaprojects.ca/
I was thinking about the concept of waiting…still waiting for a long time and considering various forms and media to express it. The Umbrella Projects’ open call for submissions seemed like the perfect opportunity to realise this idea. I often use text in my work because I am fascinated by the expressive power of language. When I learned English at the age of five, I remember repeating the sound of new words, rolling my tongue around the unfamiliar shapes and sounds and trying to visualize them.
from the Umbrella Projects website:
Waiting… still waiting, a temporary public art installation by artist Yvonne Singer. This project consists of six banners installed at intervals on Sackville’s York and Lorne Streets. Each banner sequence starts with the word “waiting,” in handwritten script, followed by a second banner that reads “still waiting.” These open-ends phrases, inspired by the phenomenon of subvocalization (silent, internal speech), evoke a wide range of associations. In the artist’s words, “Waiting…. still waiting encapsulates the current moment of the pandemic and the feeling of being in a state of suspended animation; waiting to get test results, waiting for a vaccine, waiting for the end of the pandemic and the restrictions to our daily lives. So much of our lives involves waiting, from the mundane waiting in line at the grocery store or waiting for the rain to end, to significant waiting, like waiting for the results of a pregnancy test or a cancer diagnosis… We are endlessly waiting for something….”
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