Artspeak Exhibition – “Milman Parry’s Waiting Room Rhapsody” by Julian Hou

BY: JULIAN HOU April 1–May 20, 2017 Gallery is open: Tuesday–Saturday, 12–5pm Waiting rooms encourage you to be still, quiet, patient and contemplative. The stillness is not for your privacy. Other bodies may or may not be present. The furnishings and décor remain non-descript, maybe a little kitsch, certainly inconsequential. They’ve absorbed the energies of all the bodies that have passed through, witnessing, acknowledging a spectrum of states of waiting. Your company includes magazines from several years ago, a water cooler without cups, averting eye contact and a mutual confirmation not to inquire as to the purpose of the other person’s presence.