What happens when you look up and everywhere starts to feel the same? Your office is now the bedroom, opening onto the home gym you set up next door – once-separate sites compressed into a singular room designed to make labor a seemingly more convenient process. In The Waiting Room, Hannah Stewart describes living through the collapse of space within techno-feudalism, through combining common bureaucratic and domestic symbols to question the effect that burn-out culture has on the human condition. The installation uses a Kafkaesque narrative that arises within the standardized space, relying on banal triggers to evoke an inescapable scenario.

Text by Matt Dell