Olivia Marwell

Olivia Marwell explores the structural exploitation of the female body through the lens of domesticity as a complex economic and political institution. Her practice is interested in the interaction between fiber and industrial materials, and how through alternative fabrication methodologies the mediums can visually and performatively assume each other’s identities. Olivia’s work is constructed through systematized production processes designed to mimic the mechanics of domestic labor. Combined with her approach to material fabrication, such processes exist as performance aimed at producing objects that negotiate the aliantion, invisibility, and impossibility of domestic labor.