Jane Mulfinger is an avid collector of human artifacts, engaging her public in both conceptual and perceptual reflections on the significances of human activity in site specific installations, performance, and sculpture. Used clothing, second-hand s
...MoreJane Mulfinger is an avid collector of human artifacts, engaging her public in both conceptual and perceptual reflections on the significances of human activity in site specific installations, performance, and sculpture. Used clothing, second-hand spectacles, found texts, and a collection of WPA drawings of Los Angeles straddle the expansive view of her archives. A graduate of Stanford University and the Royal College of Art, with Honors and Distinction respectively, Mulfinger’s early work is recognized as addressing the relationship between architecture, memory, and the human body. Her representation of the familiar disrupts and challenges our sense of site, history, and social milieu. As the collections continue to unfold, a series of work explores the mesmerizing effects of objects in motion, regarding the construction of visual spectacle itself, in the levitation of mundane upholstery feathers and fine down. Her most longstanding work, the “Regrets” series, is a growing collection of anonymous regrets, most recently sponsored by Microsoft Research and the University of Westminster, also featured at Ars Electronica, Linz.
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