The waiting room is the first realization of the Attitudes project, which offers a series of video projections on the theme of the “partitioning of bodies” in various public (movie theaters, screening rooms) and private spaces. Reflecting the metonymic principle of the partitioning of bodies, the video projections present different “attitudes” of the body situated in recomposed spaces
Furniture is designed, constructed, and arranged in such a way as to refer to a specific place: several rows of chairs facing each other for a waiting room. This echoes the characteristics of transitional spaces such as airport waiting rooms or administrative offices.
The seats serve as screens for projections of moving images of people occupying the exact position imposed by the shape of the object. They are molds. The object is the limit of the projection, meaning that only the fragments of the body that exactly cover the furniture will be visible. “Other people are already waiting. A woman, two men. Eyes looking up, arms folded, sighs. Gestures of waiting. A minimal, intimate choreography. Very quickly, we realize that the reality is different: La Salle d’attente (The Waiting Room) is an installation by Natacha Nisic, and the people sitting there are just images projected onto the seats. We thus encounter snippets of life, bits of cinema, a distant remake of Chloé from 5 to 7, but from 7 to 8, during her visit to the doctor. A film, then, shot with dancers from Joel Borges’ company, produced by a team (lighting, cameraman, makeup artist…), but projected onto seats, a true cinematic proposition that turns its back on the screen and experiments with other forms of storytelling.”
Jean-Max colard, Les Inrockuptibles
5 video projections on 16 canvas and aluminium seats, Gallery Renos Xippas, 1998©Photo Michel N’Guyen
Exhibitions :
Remise en forme, galerie Xippas, 1998.
EXTRAetORDINAIRE, Printemps de Cahors, 1999.
Para ver de otra manera, musée de Huesca, 2003.
Territoire et déplacement, centre arc en ciel, 2004, Liévin, France.
Collection FNAC, France.
