Marni Saunders

Load (2024-2025)

Marni Saunders’ practice seeks to expose "the dirty, the discarded and the overlooked." Through found objects and sculptural processes like resin casting, she explores themes of unseen labour, gendered work and maintenance, interrogating what society conceals, sanitises and deems unworthy of attention. Load (2024-2025) consists of two vertical washing machine drums stuffed with “unwanted” hotel bed sheets, held in place with tinted Perspex and mounted on the wall. The piece, inspired by an industrial hotel wash house near Edinburgh, reflects on the quiet – and often invisible – work that sustains cleanliness and order in both public and private spaces.

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