AO ROBERTS
THE STRIDENTS
The Stridents are textile sculptures on steel frames, featuing patterns inspired by church confession screens and home radiators. They are shown with Mirror for Recluses, a polyvocal sound installation that explores the history of reclusive Anchorite nuns, and Say It Ain't So, a series of serigraph text on lampblack.
The Stridents #2 (total insolvency).
Cotton nylon, steel.
The Stridents #3
(there is gold dust).
Say It Ain’t So #1-5.
Ink and lampblack on paper.
Say It Ain’t So #3
(litihium milk)
Ink and lampblack on paper.
Install views:
The Stridents, Truck Gallery (2017)
Superimposition: Sculpture and Image, Plug In ICA (2016)
A Mirror for Recluses.
15 min audio loop of a polyvocal recitation,
speakers, bench, ventilation grate.
Dimensions variable.
2016
Based on research into medieval hermetic nuns The Anchorites. The installation features speakers embedded into the walls of TRUCK gallery, out of which emits a chorus of voices reciting sections of the guide for Anchorites "The Speculum Inclusorum".