Astrid Mulder is an interdisciplinary artist working across performance, photography, video and installation. They perform for the camera to create collaged compositions that reimagine the body in space. Their work celebrates the body’s ability to challenge perceptions and reveal new ways of engaging with the world, using gestures and poses to convey complex emotions and narratives reflective of modern life.

Through digital approaches to performance, Mulder fragments, duplicates, and reassembles the body using collage techniques to create unexpected compositions. This process uncovers new possibilities for choreography and highlights the transformative potential of the human form. By blurring the boundaries between reality and imagination, their work challenges conventional perceptions of the body and its relationship to space. Mulder also explores how technology expands possibilities of performance, offering glimpses into speculative futures and alternative realities.

Play, inspired by surrealist methodologies, is central to their practice, enabling the exploration of subconscious movement to reveal human desire. Bold, contrasting colours in Mulder’s work are inspired by the visual language of advertising, utilizing colour’s power to captivate attention and evoke associations. 

Conceptually, Mulder’s work examines the tension between truth and fiction in contemporary imagery. In an age of advanced digital editing and artificial intelligence, their practice critiques the complexity of distinguishing the “real” while also embracing the imaginative possibilities of digital manipulation. Through this lens, Mulder invites viewers to reflect on visibility, concealment, and absence, questioning how these elements shape our understanding of the body in a digitally saturated world.