Photographs of empty chairs
Waiting
Concerts, dinners, encounters; expecting, reading, listening
Photographs of chairs in public space,
deserted; mass
Inaugural scene: empty chairs, swelling hubbub, people entering the frame, alone or accompanied, holding hands, arm in arm, an arm around a waist, a hand on a shoulder, or standing apart
Multiple configurations
Clatter of chairs being pulled out, cracking; sounds of coats or jackets taken off, laid across backrests, straw and wood creaking anew; the opening of a bag, the unfolding of a paper-sheet; silence; busy waiters, musicians settling in and tuning their instruments
Chairs that are comfortable, straight, hard, lopsided, wobbly, unobtrusive
Gazes facing the same direction - a plate, a stage; guests looking at other guests; silence or budding conversations
Delight, disillusion; quiet or keen talks, absence of conversation, nothing more to say
Clatter of chairs being pulled out, cracking; sounds of coats or jackets taken off, laid across backrests, straw and wood creaking anew; the opening of a bag, the unfolding of a paper-sheet; silence; busy waiters, musicians settling in and tuning their instruments
Chairs that are comfortable, straight, hard, lopsided, wobbly, unobtrusive
Gazes facing the same direction - a plate, a stage; guests looking at other guests; silence or budding conversations
Delight, disillusion; quiet or keen talks, absence of conversation, nothing more to say
Then people standing up, leaving
with no regard for the chairs, returning to their picturesque solitude.
Photographs of witness chairs, dumb as tombs, bearing the silent memory of bodies, backs and buttocks
with no regard for the chairs, returning to their picturesque solitude.
Photographs of witness chairs, dumb as tombs, bearing the silent memory of bodies, backs and buttocks
They summon the imagination, filling once more with life.
