metronome yawned brings together new and recent works that cumulatively meditate on the slipperiness of time—how it’s felt compared to how it’s ordered, how a life is measured relative to the milestones that are collectively yet spuriously held up as markers of progress, or how specific instances of mundanity can unexpectedly and irreversibly punctuate the cadence of a life.
The exhibition’s starting point is a selection of works on paper from a series entitled Like Night Needs Morning. A constellation of figures—some based on Cudahy’s close relationships, others culled from archives and images of crowds—rest, contemplate, embrace, and entangle their way through each hour of the day amidst allegorical gestures to cycles of life and death, light and dark. Like a recollection of a dream upon waking, certain details are rendered with precision, whereas others dissolve into aqueous washes of colour and form.
metronome yawned is on view at the Esker Foundation, Calgary (CA) from January 24 to April 26, 2026.
