Treated with automotive paints mixed with phosphorescent powder, the artwork has two lives and dramatises the relationship between force, scale and fragility. Aspects of the work that are invisible by day will take on new life in the night’s darkness, revealing concealed secrets. Night Crumple invites the viewer to consider the structure’s simultaneous resilience and vulnerability.

Hedwig Barry works at the intersection of visual arts, arts education and research. Her drawings, paintings and sculptures articulate a feminist politics of love and desire in artistic practice and society.

Her work explores how we teach and learn, whom we include, and what we make. She graduated cum laude with an MA Fine Arts from Wits School of Arts (2020) with "Pedagogies, Desires and Practices".

In 2020-2021, BMW commissioned her for two large outdoor interventions at its Midrand campus. Her ‘Crumple’ series installations are at the Everard-Read Gallery in Johannesburg and at the Nirox Sculpture Park.