Nathaniel Mellors has developed an experimental practice combining installations with animatronics sculptures, satirical film, video, theatre & performance.
Mellors’ draws inspiration from popular icons of cinema and theater while making pointed observations about language, cultural appropriation and power structures.
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The destabilization of language undermines its ability to correspond to and express external reality is an ongoing motif found within Mellors practice. Dramatic narrative often take shape within a framework of word play, punning and fragmented dialogue, forming an almost systematic disconnect between individual and collective understanding.