Australian artist Susie Losch has created a mesmerising new sculpture as part of a new suite of commissions by the Murray Art Museum Albury (MAMA). A series of shapes made with recycled cloth take the form of tetrapods, those three legged objects in concrete that are placed along shore lines to prevent erosion. Losch has created them as inflatables, that take on a life of their own as they inflate and deflate, with flailing limbs that recall a living being.
The artist says: “I recently spent some time observing the masses of tetrapods at Gyeongpodae beach, in Gangwon-do province, South Korea. I set about re-creating their forms, which appear simple but have a geometric complexity. In doing this I also came to realise just how much concrete is in each tetrapod. There is a tension here in the amount of heavy material used to protect coastlines from environmental degradation. As they move against each other, inflating and deflating, they behave like the waves that break upon tetrapods on coastlines around the globe. They become the storm surge.”
At the beginning of the pandemic, MAMA postponed its entire exhibition program to 2021 and commissioned a new museum-wide show, providing valuable financial support to a selection of twenty artists, including local artist Susie Losch.
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