Seraphina Mutscheller’s (b. 2002, Germany) creative practice seeks to question anthropocentrism as an ideology of human superiority, in favour of relational perspectives. Bringing variegated material languages into play, the artist manifests visual grammars of animacy, leading to work that sits between sculpture and painting. Her work emerges through a continuous negotiation of surface. Layers of self-made paints become subject to erasure; sanded, peeled and cut away, to be once again mantled by semi-translucent pigment in solution.
Through this working process, which enacts the flux of natural terrain, Mutsccheller effectuates process-relational thought: an ontology that understands the basic constituents of the world to be moments of experience, which weave together to constitute the processes by which all things unfold and evolve.
Mutscheller is the recipient of the Windsor&Newton Award at the Royal College of Art. Previously, she studied at the Slade School of Fine Art and City and Guilds of London Art School.