Waiting Room 1, 2 and 3. Xray Box and Digtial Print, 2025.

Waiting Rooms 1, 2, and 3 are X-ray lightboxes each containing 31 inverted images of Knežević in moments of waiting with her mother (Waiting Room 1), grandfather (Waiting Room 2) and grandmother (Waiting Room 3). The images depict scenes of waiting at home, in hospitals, and in the moments between appointments, showing waiting as an everyday action.

Medical waiting rooms are familiar spaces that come to represent the act of waiting. For those receiving care, as well as for caregivers, this waiting can feel immeasurable. It alters our experience of time, as attention turns toward waiting, for results, for answers, for care. We become intimately familiar with this suspended state; it does not remain confined to the waiting room but extends into everyday life, shaping our perceptions of the body, time, and the self.

Read more about this work in The Conversation article, As a carer, I’ve spent hours in waiting rooms. My new artwork explores these liminal spaces.