Cycles Sheffer Gallery
Curated by Mara Schwerdtfeger
“Cycles is an exhibition of process investigating the translation of art when passed between artists engaging in different mediums. Each artist was given a month to develop a work responding to the previous artist’s piece. This method of communal creativity and influence allowed us to continue sharing and creating while in lockdown and separated across states.”
- Mara Schwerdtfeger (curator)
‘What interested me in Trudi’s work was that it captures sound as if it were physical, in a silent and physically untextured medium. Nevertheless it contains the possibility of sound and texture. It lingers on the senses, taunting, almost daring itself, but hanging back on a perpetual cusp of the real. I wanted to play with this ability of sense stimulants to deviously trade and jest with us. My music box is silent, with light ‘touching’ the skin instead. All the possible sounds that could be expected are absent. Instead they crawl out from inside as letters, spilling and swarming onto the surfaces. Like little devils laughing. The work is made from materials I have stumbled upon, cut apart and repurposed. The letters are my mother tongue.’
‘music box’
salvaged materials including box, jar clasps, aluminium and plastic, enamel paint, acrylic primer, fabric paint, cotton, LED lights
2021
photograph below by Zoe Baumgartner, all other photographs by the artist
