Marlon Kroll

Marlon Kroll has developed a unique artistic language through his diverse range of mediums, including drawing, sculpture, and ceramics. His artistic practice is described as a form of speculative anthropology because it investigates the curious relationships between objects, forms, people, and their belongingness. He also incorporates anthropology through the use of idioms, puns, and mimicry, inspired by the survival instinct in evolutionary biology in which one species imitates another, further contributing to the creation of his visual language. Despite the primary focus of his practice being drawing, Kroll identifies himself as a "figurative painter" and utilizes objects and forms to express personal experiences and subjectivity, rather than simply portraying people and places. Koll's sculptures can be symbolic of confident gestures in three-dimensional drawings formed by combining a variety of found objects. The unique forms in his work bear qualities that are reflective of the human body and its expression.