Marisa Müsing
Marisa Müsing (she/they) is a transdisciplinary artist, researcher and cybernymph exploring relationships between the body, digital identity and archaeological history, and expressing ethereal feminist ideals through digital and sculptural media. Their work explores blurred boundaries of the body, identity and digital space, fostering ethereal opportunities for growth.  

They are currently pursuing a PhD in Architectural Research at the Royal College of Art that reinvestigates Pompeiian frescoes through a queer cyberfeminist lens. 

Marisa has presented works at Royal Academy of Arts London, Salone del Mobile Milan, New York Design Week, Filet Space Gallery London, Nuit Blanche Toronto, Softer Digital Copenhagen and Maison et Objet Paris. They have been featured in Glitch Magazine, Hypebae, WGSN, Dezeen, Vogue, and the New York Times.

Marisa co-runs two design collectives, müsing-sellés (furniture & architecture) and mamumifi (objects & art)

Marisa is from Tkaronto/Toronto, and currently lives between London and Paris. 

contact
email: marisa.musing3@gmail.com
insta: marisamusing
CV: click here
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Ginger Chimes

sculpture, mamumifi, Joys, 2024

Encased Lunar Bloom, photo by Marisa Müsing, 2024
Joys Gallery exhibition space, photo by Marisa Müsing, 2024
Beetle’s Lament, photo by Marisa Müsing, 2024
Beetle’s Lament, photo by  Dhvani Ramanujam, 2024
Beetle’s Lament, photo by Marisa Müsing, 2024
A Dormant Seed, photo by Dhvani Ramanujam, 2024
A Dormant Seed, photo by Marisa Müsing, 2024

Ginger Chimes presented at Joys (Toronto), presents a new body of work spanning sculpture, textile, metallurgy, silverwork, painting and installation. Exploring individual and shared experiences with AAPI (Asian American Pacific Islander) identity and diaspora, Ginger Chimes explores growth, community, and tactility through a poetic vocabulary of forms. Using the medium of spalted maple wood, a series of abstracted sculptural ‘bodies’ are formed influenced by stories shared from AAPI experiences. Each body sculpture is enveloped in naturally dyed and pleated textiles, interweaving stories of body, identity and memory through the collaborative work. Akin to the rhizomatic roots of ginger, the logic of the work extends horizontally, forming numerous and nebulous connections that perpetuate balance and a spirit of interdependence.

Offered fragments of guests’ childhood and memories that
accumulated on a small chime on the outside of the gallery.
Offered fragments of guests’ childhood and memories that
accumulated on a small chime on the outside of the gallery.
Offered fragments of guests’ childhood and memories that
accumulated on a small chime on the outside of the gallery.
Offered fragments of guests’ childhood and memories that
accumulated on a small chime on the outside of the gallery.
Offered fragments of guests’ childhood and memories that
accumulated on a small chime on the outside of the gallery.
Offered fragments of guests’ childhood and memories that
accumulated on a small chime on the outside of the gallery.
Offered fragments of guests’ childhood and memories that
accumulated on a small chime on the outside of the gallery.

project by mamumifi
materials: spalted maple wood, dyed silk, silver, metal, beeswax


presented at Joys, 2024

Joys exhibition space, photo by Marisa Müsing, 2024
Chrysalis in Three, photo by Dhvani Ramanujam, 2024
Chrysalis in Three, photo by Marisa Müsing, 2024
Silver wall detail, photo by Marisa Müsing, 2024
Gallery detail, photo by Marisa Müsing, 2024
Where the Centipede’s Shadow Lays, photo by Jennifer Laflamme, 2024
Where the Centipede’s Shadow Lays, photo by Jennifer Laflamme, 2024
Blinking Rhizome, Joys Gallery, photo by Marisa Müsing, 2024
Blinking Rhizome, Joys Gallery, photo by Marisa Müsing, 2024