Waiting Room

The title of this exhibition not only takes advantage of the architecture of the gallery’s annex —a more secluded, intimate place that could be compared to a waiting room, where we coexist with people we do not know but with whom we share a motivation— but also alludes to the fact that Ángela de la Cruz (A Coruña, Spain, 1965) and Guillermo Mora (Alcalá de Henares, Spain, 1980) do not know each other, but in this space they coincide in formal, chromatic and conceptual aspects about the boundaries between painting and sculpture.

The exhibition seeks to stage a conversation in this waiting room, where we often stop talking and maintain a contemplative gaze in silence, losing the opportunity for encounters of all kinds. In the same way, the dialogue between his works and the title of the exhibition suggests an anticipation —the moment before the curtain rises, or perhaps the moment before a doctor’s appointment— but also the promise of the fulfilment of a desire or need and its consequent temporary postponement.

The works invite the viewer to linger in a suspended moment and contemplate the latent tensions that emerge, just as the Beckettian characters Vladimir and Estragon struggle to escape the feeling of being trapped in an endless present.