Beneath The Body — HONGRU ZHANG

“Beneath The Body” provides us with a humanoid figure that is at part and part of the familiar and the un-familiar. Its scale and attitude invokes our broad understanding of the human body, but its skin and interior has been stretched, contorted and deformed by pulling and growing. There seems to be a number of pressures pushing, resisting and responding to each other. The forms are not anatomical, but more of a ‘warwick’ – a place where organic and synthetic pressure deform, intertwine and evolve. Inhabiting the body is usually a sufficiently stable relation, here it is left for you to consider.

Title: Beneath The Body

Year: 2025

Medium: Steel, Fabric and Latex

Dimension: L115cm x W70cm x H215cm