A Theatre of Waiting
Oil on canvas
80 x 100 cm (left),
90 x 120 cm (middle),
80 x 120 cm (right)
2019
The triptych A Theater of Waiting is the artist’s attempt to represent the complexities of public space. The images depicted by the artist are based on three scenes of airports with people waiting. He removed any textual markers or backgrounds that can be specifically located, leaving the scene shrouded in a white void. In these three moments, purposeful thinking and behaviors are in a state of suspension (people waiting for boarding and the plane to take off, but the airport and the plane are erased, empty). What is left is only the contingency of mundane behavior, which creates the dramatic conflict, the "theater". When non-fictional, non-narrative dramas play out together, the public area of the airport is no longer just a setting for waiting but points to a theater of waiting, where the hierarchy between everyday happenings and human figures is constantly being rearranged, leaving the audience to imagine the dramatic conflicts.
The 2nd Floor, SNOWCOAST Building，No.66 Yunlongshan Road, 
