Robin Waart : "would you..."

A set of 16 postcards titled “Would you…”, each a still image from a movie with the dialogue as subtitle in white text at the bottom of the card.

“Would you care to dance with me?”

“How about a drink?”

“Will you have lunch with me one day?”

The postcards show the various indirect ways in which people go about asking the same daunting question – would you… like to go out with me? It is a question that makes you vulnerable, and Robin explained that he deliberately chose still images which do not give away who is asking the question at hand. The words are just present in the space, and leave the viewer to wonder whether it is the man or the woman in the scene, the artist or perhaps even themselves who are asking it – and who hasn’t fantasised at some point about asking out attractive people from movies? Maybe even before thinking of asking someone real and realistic.