ANDREA SANDERS | What Remains | WAITING ROOM

February 8 - March 13, 2026

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“There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting.” 
-Milan Kundera, Slowness 

My work is about permanence and change, time and remembrance. These recent images are from an ongoing series of photographs shot from moving cars and trains. They speak to our futile attempt to stop time, to be still. We look out from a window and imagine what lives are being lived in the houses we’re passing by, or notice how the light falls just so at that instant. We’re moving too fast to focus and we’re left with just soft impressions, feelings without details. I’m drawn to houses that seem both familiar and vague; places that feel like a memory of somewhere, someone, a stretch of time or a singular moment. 

The French philosopher, Bachelard, wrote that “a house is a tool with which to confront the cosmos. It helps us to say, ‘I am an inhabitant of this world, in spite of the world.’” And just as a house is physical proof that we were there, so is a photograph. But while the image on paper that is a photograph may help us to remember, it can never bring us back, or bring those lost back to us. I try to convey that sense of “then and now” with my work. In contrast to the still, solid architecture we surround ourselves with, and in contrast to the frozen photographs which we treasure although they are simply illusions, our lives are, for better or worse, in constant and unstoppable forward motion. 

Andrea Sanders was born in New York and grew up in the suburbs of New York City. After graduating from The University of Virginia in 1991 with a Bachelor of Arts in both Fine Art and English Literature, she was accepted to the Vermont Studio Center where she focused on photographic mixed media work. She received her Masters in Fine Art from the Photography & Related Media Department at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, culminating in an exhibition at the Visual Arts Gallery in Soho. Andrea was then accepted to the Bronx Museum’s Artists in the Marketplace seminar program, resulting in a group museum exhibition. She has since exhibited in group shows and consistently participated in Dumbo Open Studios (while also cultivating a decades-long career as a creative director). She shares a studio with three other artists in Dumbo, Brooklyn and her work is currently comprised of digital photographic images.