Created during the COVID-19 pandemic, “Waiting” is an installation composed of surgical face masks, transformed from objects of protection into a collective testimony of vulnerability, isolation, and hope.
Removed from their everyday function, the masks become a fragile architectural skin, preserving the memory of suspended lives and interrupted gestures. Each element bears the trace of an invisible experience shared across humanity, where distance became an act of care and waiting became a universal condition.
The installation explores the paradox of protection and separation. Materials associated with emergency and fear are reimagined as a poetic landscape, revealing the resilience hidden within collective fragility. “Waiting” does not simply recall a historical moment; it invites reflection on time as a space of transformation, where uncertainty can generate awareness, empathy, and renewal.Created during the COVID-19 pandemic, “Waiting” is an installation composed of surgical face masks, transformed from objects of protection into a collective testimony of vulnerability, isolation, and hope.
Removed from their everyday function, the masks become a fragile architectural skin, preserving the memory of suspended lives and interrupted gestures. Each element bears the trace of an invisible experience shared across humanity, where distance became an act of care and waiting became a universal condition.
The installation explores the paradox of protection and separation. Materials associated with emergency and fear are reimagined as a poetic landscape, revealing the resilience hidden within collective fragility. “Waiting” does not simply recall a historical moment; it invites reflection on time as a space of transformation, where uncertainty can generate awareness, empathy, and renewal.
