Marleigh Belsley (b. Chicago, IL 2001) is interested in the impact of technology on how we understand ourselves, each other, and our environment.
She is interested in what - on a microscopic level - happens through the process of sound and image capture, and how this can begin to reveal the complex, intertwined systems of the climate crisis and digital technology.
She considers how video offers the opportunity to listen deeply and look again, both through process and the video itself. Distorting sound and image through technology, she brings the abstraction, reduction, and digitization inherent to any sound or image capture to the forefront to be examined, questioned, and criticized.
By revealing video’s constructed nature, making the distance between the viewer, the image, and the original environment palpable, she hopes her work can offer an opportunity to shift from passive viewership to critical reflection on our everyday consumption of digital media.
Marleigh Belsley is currently based in London, pursuing an MA in Contemporary Art Practice from the Royal College of Art. She earned her BA in Studio Art and Music at Harvard and studied Music Technology at Berklee College of Music (2024). Marleigh has photographed for organizations such as the New York Times and the Harvard Film Archive. She has exhibited at Fridman Gallery (2025), Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts (2024) and Maven Art House (2023).
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email: mobelsley@gmail.com