(video installation | 3 same dimension monitors | mini-DV transferred to digital file, 3’15” + 4’32” + 3’07”, colour, no sound)
"Waiting For The Right Moment" can be presented as single video divided in three screens or as a video installation in loop with three monitors of same dimension set side by side.
This video has a close connection with “Looking For Some Small Marks” and pursues its conceptual line with a new everyday, real situation, set in a different space and in another context. This time, we see people waiting at the traffic lights for their turn to cross the street when the light turns green for them.
This video was filmed in Lisbon, in the vicinity of a railway station and bus stops, after the artist’s return to Portugal. In that sense, it has a specific meaning in relation to his personal development, even though the situation of people waiting for the right moment to step forward works by itself. It has various metaphorical meanings.
The video presents a succession of individuals who refrain of moving forward so that other individuals can do so, in order. Everyone complies to a system of social organization since this is the only way things can work as a whole and individuals can have their turn to move forward safely.
The artist is especially interested in the reactions, attitudes, emotions, behaviours, pauses and gestures caused by restraint at the borderline of the individual and the collective, of the self and the Other.