Helen Marten

Helen Marten’s work spans sculpture, painting, drawing, video and writing with each work operating like a poetic puzzle of material, language and form. Her installations unfold through their own visual and linguistic logic, shifting between object and image, two and three dimensions. Using outlines of familiar things and symbolic emblems of social exchange, Marten expands the legacy of the readymade into something more cryptic and associative.

Marten’s installations invite viewers to slow down, look closely, and engage through their senses. With precise material intelligence and conceptual clarity, she builds environments that question the architecture of meaning—how objects communicate, how language shifts, and where value and waste intersect, overlap, and ultimately merge.