Wai(s)ting Your Time Away began with a simple question: is time spent waiting really wasted?
Installed inside Platform One Gallery, a former waiting room within Wandsworth Station, the work used the existing function and history of the site as its starting point. A reconstructed wooden jetty gradually rose from the floor and extended into the room, bringing together two spaces associated with waiting, departure and transition: the railway platform and the water’s edge.
Passengers encountering the installation were themselves already between destinations. Rather than asking them to escape this period of inactivity, the work invited them to inhabit it differently, turning an everyday interval into a space for attention, anticipation and reflection.
At the end of the jetty, two fans circulated air towards a blank white wall. Sound, light and movement suggested the possibility of somewhere beyond the physical limits of the gallery without ever revealing a destination.
The work reframed waiting not as an absence of activity, but as an experience in itself: a suspended state between where we have been and where we expect to arrive.
Artist: Norman Mine
Venue: Platform One Gallery, Wandsworth Station, London
Supported by: Platform One Gallery
