Monica Marks - Waiting Rooms opens May 31 at Shoebox
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I've been working with Monica Marks for a while now, and I can tell you that this show has been a long time coming. Not just in terms of the years it took to make, though it has been years, but in terms of what it asks of an artist to put something this personal on the walls.
Waiting Rooms opens Sunday, May 31st at Shoebox Projects at the Brewery. 4–6pm. And I really hope you'll come.
Monica's statement says it better than I can:
"Waiting Rooms comes from a deeply personal place. In 2016, my daughter almost died. We spent seven days in the ICU, and that experience changed the way I understand time, fear, and the spaces we are forced to occupy when someone we love is in danger."
She's been photographing those spaces ever since. Hospital rooms, hallways, hands, the small objects that mark the passage of anxious time. Twenty-three photographs. Twenty recorded stories sent in by people who trusted her with their own experiences of waiting and wondering.
The sandwich generation piece hits hard too. Still helping her kids while stepping into the caregiver role for her aging parents. So many of us are living that exact thing right now and not talking about it.
That's what Monica does. She makes space for what we're not talking about.
You'll walk in and it will feel like a waiting room. Chairs, headphones, magazines. And on the walls, photographs that are windows into real moments. Fear and uncertainty and the quiet resilience that lives inside both.
Live readings from special guests. Work that asks something of you. A conversation that's worth having.
Come.
Opening Reception Sunday, May 31, 4–6pm Shoebox Projects at the Brewery 660 South Avenue 21 #3, Los Angeles
Exhibition continues through June 20 by appointment. Contact @monicamarksart to schedule.
See you there.
Kristine
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