‘In Waiting’ is an examination of Athens and its role as a physical stage for the Greece’s economic crisis, where Eirini Vourloumis primarily explores the interiors of government buildings, institutions, and schools to question how these spaces reflect modern Greek culture and character. The locations she choses are familiar microcosms for Athenians that have now become the public stage for a forced re-negotiation of Greek identity. Trying to personally rationalize how the deceptively tedious components of urban life factor into the economic crisis, Vourloumis is specifically attracted to the kitsch aesthetic and surreal atmosphere she encounters in these spaces.
These interiors also reveal an almost antiquated and bare aesthetic quality; they evoke in their decor a feeling of dependency on and idolization of the past. Spaces, which once seemed banal or unimportant, now reveal nuances of Greek reality and have social and political implications. Like the Greek people, these places exist in anticipation of their future.
