Born 1988 in the Netherlands, Rullens practice involves the transformation of everyday materials, often focusing on the use of cardboard boxes, Rullens explores ways in which we might transpose conventional ideas of the home. Confinement is a theme that seems to run through Rullens’ practice; what might the delivery boxes have the potential to represent when an individual’s world is suddenly confined to the walls of the home?

Probably inspired by the restrictions that were set in place from the Covid-19 pandemic, Rullens questions how we might use our imagination to escape domestic spaces, what might the possibility of Amazon Prime and other delivery markets offer to the individual dweller? And do delivery boxes represent more than just a 3D shape, perhaps instead an excitement and an ulterior universe?

Rullens’s recently published book, ‘Full of Emptiness’ (2021) is her first collection of images both from her studio and from her daily life. In it, Rullens offers a direct comment on the ironic ‘emptiness’ of a box; boxes can withhold an excitement and an unknown that most people still recognise. Maybe Rullens is playing on the nostalgia of childhood notions of gift-receiving, or childhood games, making spaceships out of boxes and simple domestic materials. The ability to be able to fly away with our imagination is something that Rullens draws our attention to.

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