Exploring mortality's weight across various time scales, Hautemulle’s practice questions values shaped by finite time. From geological epochs to personal lifetimes, she questions productivity, progress, pleasure, beauty, goodness and value.
How in our mortality, do we consume time?



︎︎︎ michael.hautemulle@gmail.com
︎︎︎ @michaelhautemulle


Exploring mortality's weight across various time scales, Hautemulle’s practice questions values shaped by finite time. From geological epochs to personal lifetimes, she questions productivity, progress, pleasure, beauty, goodness and value.
How in our mortality, do we consume time?

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︎︎︎ michael.hautemulle@gmail.com
︎︎︎ @michaelhautemulle

DEATH BY MOUSE AND CHICKEN

Video
2011


By asking, “How do you want to be remembered after you die?” this video work explores notions of anonymity and personal introspection. It examines how reflections on mortality reveal deeper truths about one's sense of self and the impact they wish to have on the world.

The project invites viewers to publicly, yet anonymously, state what they believe is important in life, encouraging a deeper engagement with how we construct and perceive our own identities. It explores the tension between public expression and private self, and how the acceptance or fear of death influences the ways we shape our narratives.

Through this exploration, the video fosters a dialogue about the nature of impact and the human desire for significance, reflecting on the broader experience of confronting one's own end.



                        




*As the Michael's first video work from her first year of art school, it is technically quite poor. However, it is considered fundamental by the artist to the development of their later themes and work.