Would you describe your Zoom fatigue as a numbness of the eyelids, a way to say I have seen too much? Or does it rather feel like being confined to a room the size of your own self? Perhaps more than a feeling, I think of it as a non-place—like a patch of grass at the end of a parking lot—a vacant, meager yet inauspicious corner lurking. The Conceptual artist and 3D designer Hannah Rose Stewart produces intricate digital and physical environments where familiar ghosts masquerading as morose (unarmed?) first-person shooters seem caught in a perpetual state of lingering. The way our hands have learned to scroll unknown territories with such ease and disregard for the world. Opening tomorrow (03.02.2023) at Number 1 Main Road, the newly founded space run by Tom Esam and Paul Ferens, is a site-specific installation by the artist entitled The Waiting Room. I imagine a palimpsest made of our collective time spent online roaming mundane and hazy spaces and all of the rooms in between we cruise for easter eggs carved with our own initials. From our bedrooms turned offices, aren’t we always simply waiting to be let in by The Host?
Text: Fette Sans / Photos: Hannah Rose Stewart
Fette Sans art meanders between concept and poetry, words and people, body politics and dystopian fantasy, the very digital and the very nostalgic. Her latest book, based on a collaborative performance with Marie von Heyl, is available here.
Hannah Rose Stewart — The Waiting Room at Number 1 Main Road, Ossastr.21a, 12045 Berlin–Neukölln; map
Opening Fri 03.02.2023 18h, Sa & Sun 14–18h and by appointment.
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