MARLIE MUL
Her multidisciplinary artistic practice ranges from early online projects to the various narratives she has adopted that have informed her recent texts and sculptural objects. Marlie Mul’s sculptures often simulate everyday outdoor objects that refer to human interaction, such as air vents used as ashtrays, heaps of snow arranged with stubbed out cigarette butts, or gritty rain puddles littered with generic bits of trash. With cigarette butts and litter depicting traces of human behaviours, the situations presented in these works suggest to the viewer an invisible presence of a virtual population or crowd.
They serve as tools to examine the seemingly obvious and ask exactly how such situations are (and have become) familiar, which societal decisions preceded this and how human behaviour is shaped by such decisions.
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