TRULEE HALL

Trulee Hall’s The Wave Machine For Singing Fish originated as part of an immersive installation within “Ladies' Lair Lake,” a surreal musical in 14 parts. Exhibited for the first time beyond the stage, the homemade machine once served as the set for a surreal narrative, wherein a new mother tries to get rid of her immaculately conceived baby by sending it floating down the river in a basket. Taken out of that operatic context, the work is now a kinetic and quite disjointed whirring sculpture. Comprised of video, sculpture, paintings, original soundtrack, kinetic mechanics, and choreographed dance, Hall constructs scenarios that are intended to both invite and disorient. Engaging an uncanny hyper-reality, propelled by sexual impulse and the language of the unconscious; rife with tongue-in-cheek comedy teetering between flirty funhouse and Technicolor nightmare, Hall’s work approaches notions of girlhood, erotica, maternity, and feminine divinity in the light of a queer, alchemical, and mythical reality.