Erika Trotzig MRSS

Erika makes precarious structures, using temporary and unstable construction methods such as gaffer taping, bandaging or weaving pieces of wood together with yarn or string. Mirroring aspects of architecture her work questions the process of remembering, both individual and collective, and evolves into space-dividers, obstructions and fragments that alludes to ruins. Her works are humorous. Un-heroic, un-monumental and absurd, teetering on collapse, they often have anthropomorphic qualities, occupying a space between the human and the architectural, presenting tragicomic impressions in their absurd struggle to hold themselves together.

She works with found materials: offcuts from building sites or wood salvaged from transport pallets, discarded fruit crates, foam from old mattresses and cushions, cardboard boxes. The transient, disposable nature of these materials add narrative to the work, and improbable juxtapositions such as building sand and wool, or old foam and bandages combined with gendered construction methods like knitting but also welding and carpentry attempts to subvert notions of craft and skill, whilst attempting to access an aesthetic pf failure.