https://hongruzhang.com/nav 2025-07-24T15:54:44+00:00 always 0.5 https://hongruzhang.com/intro 2025-07-24T15:54:43+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/B2244031733345877364820426959452/2025-02-25-00325.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/P2324730127926128847661029549255/WechatIMG1204.jpeg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/P2324730899424306242415606785223/9-260176.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/A2324731091547145770100586865863/1.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/W2324731226724886342244181107911/WechatIMG1202.jpeg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L2324731265352368432591982191815/WechatIMG1201.jpeg https://hongruzhang.com/installation-view 2025-07-24T15:54:44+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/R2468220960990365288157562692807/Gallery01.jpg Installation View https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/K2468223244291453243778442618055/Gallery01.jpg Installation View https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/E2468223339808694057446500885703/WechatIMG100.jpg Installation View https://hongruzhang.com/embodied-form 2025-10-10T14:42:47+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/E2242537114499758362650545564252/Untitled-5-1-dragged.jpg Title: Embodied Form II Year: 2024 Medium: Steel, Bronze and Latex Dimension: L40cm x W24cm x H8cm https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/A2324807827198587302631457580231/07.jpg “Embodied Form I& II” plays on the idea of skin, bone and metal. The skin covers the bone and in this case the bone grows out in a circular hug whilst the skin unfolds naturally into the bones structure. Metal, mirroring the strength of bone. is transformed through forging and welding, from cold rigidity to dynamic vitality. Quoting the process of decay and regeneration within the body and the natural process of death and decay within the human body. This piece touches on the weakness of the human body and the need for spiritual transcendence. It is at once fragile and strong. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/P2324811042539866326501142455495/3.jpg Title: Embodied Form II Year: 2024 Medium: Steel, Bronze and Latex Dimension: L40cm x W24cm x H8cm https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/T2324855718543317747000815281351/2.jpg Title: Embodied Form I Year: 2024 Medium: Steel, Bronze and Latex Dimension: L40cm x W30cm x H10cm https://hongruzhang.com/boundless-flesh 2025-10-10T14:42:47+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L2243999485928479326499703171676/Untitled-1-dragged-3.jpg “Boundless Flesh” is about the gradual and inevitable takeover of the human body. Bones, skin and form are changing in an inseparable whole, where each has its own beauty, but the indivisibility of the process makes its beauty apparent. The piece brings up the question of vulnerability and strength, where bones are giving support and skin answers with movement. This tension is between the idea of fixity and becoming. The body is not stable, it is always becoming. With that in mind, the piece questions what is it that we become and how can we withstand? https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/P2468196600220141547323698603207/Gallery02.jpg “Boundless Flesh” is about the gradual and inevitable takeover of the human body. Bones, skin and form are changing in an inseparable whole, where each has its own beauty, but the indivisibility of the process makes its beauty apparent. The piece brings up the question of vulnerability and strength, where bones are giving support and skin answers with movement. This tension is between the idea of fixity and becoming. The body is not stable, it is always becoming. With that in mind, the piece questions what is it that we become and how can we withstand? https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/I2468198412612746789287144875207/WechatIMG107.jpg Title: Boundless Flesh Year: 2024 Medium: Steel, Plaster, Fabric and Latex Dimension: L130cm x W116cm x H112cm https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/D2468198974334550577816701134023/WechatIMG108.jpg Title: Boundless Flesh Year: 2024 Medium: Steel, Plaster, Fabric and Latex Dimension: L130cm x W116cm x H112cm https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X2468199345999550174916747093191/WechatIMG104.jpg Title: Boundless Flesh Year: 2024 Medium: Steel, Plaster, Fabric and Latex Dimension: L130cm x W116cm x H112cm https://hongruzhang.com/beyond-the-body 2025-10-10T14:42:47+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/M2233236549147741585577699256924/2025-02-25-0029.jpg Title: Beyond the Body Year: 2025 Medium: Steel and Latex Dimension: L70cm x W50cm x H80cm https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/K2468206556831808587980473787591/Gallery03.jpg Title: Beyond the Body Year: 2025 Medium: Steel and Latex Dimension: L70cm x W50cm x H80cm https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/O2468213584063623235413033247943/WechatIMG111.jpg Title: Beyond the Body Year: 2025 Medium: Steel and Latex Dimension: L70cm x W50cm x H80cm https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/E2592485462629519939716832978119/Sculpture_Hongru-Zhang_Beyond-the-Body300.jpg “Beyond the Body” is about the gradual and inevitable takeover of the human body. Bones, skin and form are changing in an inseparable whole, where each has its own beauty, but the indivisibility of the process makes its beauty apparent. The piece brings up the question of vulnerability and strength, where bones are giving support and skin answers with movement. This tension is between the idea of fixity and becoming. The body is not stable, it is always becoming. With that in mind, the piece questions what is it that we become and how can we withstand? https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/P2592486739679165418555381802183/Beyond-the-Body..jpg Title: Beyond the Body Year: 2025 Medium: Steel and Latex Dimension: L70cm x W50cm x H80cm https://hongruzhang.com/beneath-the-body 2025-10-10T14:42:52+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/C2468228471453087690485536285895/Gallery04.jpg “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. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/S2468229965860718589843731801287/WechatIMG121.jpg Title: Beneath The Body Year: 2025 Medium: Steel, Fabric and Latex Dimension: L115cm x W70cm x H215cm https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/D2468230433393447138012317508807/WechatIMG113.jpg Title: Beneath The Body Year: 2025 Medium: Steel, Fabric and Latex Dimension: L115cm x W70cm x H215cm https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X2468230459975205348227781387463/WechatIMG116.jpg Title: Beneath The Body Year: 2025 Medium: Steel, Fabric and Latex Dimension: L115cm x W70cm x H215cm https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/O2468234878025751233886522074311/20250706-a717df45b4eca012b68bc321d7a29f54.jpg Title: Beneath The Body Year: 2025 Medium: Steel, Fabric and Latex Dimension: L115cm x W70cm x H215cm https://hongruzhang.com/growth-i-ii 2025-10-10T14:42:52+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/U2468241061411258229475642860743/Hongru-Zhang-Growth-I---II.jpg “Growth I & II” continues with this examination of the body as a state of constant growth and mutation, drawing attention to the subtle changes taking place inside the body and the new states that arise. Blooming skeletal structures and organ-like alien forms grow slowly, ambiguously, transcending the natural/grotesque boundary. These unsettling hybrid forms refer to the fluid and indeterminate states of identity and existence. The tension here is not violent, but in the unknown quality of this slow proliferation, which makes us aware of how we relate to our bodies in a state of vulnerability and reconstruction, such that the living is multiple and complex. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q2468244368561982508197766128839/20210812-_DSF0212.jpeg Title: Growth II Year: 2025 Medium: Steel, Fabric and Latex Dimension: L20cm x W20cm x H12cm https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/H2468245017241737860194148705479/20210812-_DSF0214.jpeg Title: Growth I Year: 2025 Medium: Steel, Fabric and Latex Dimension: L28cm x W26cm x H18cm https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q2468245531149581009668547175623/20210812-_DSF0219.jpeg Title: Growth I Year: 2025 Medium: Steel, Fabric and Latex Dimension: L28cm x W26cm x H18cm https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/W2468247114267604159495976412359/20210812-_DSF0211.jpeg Title: Growth II Year: 2025 Medium: Steel, Fabric and Latex Dimension: L20cm x W20cm x H12cm https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/G2592488894517127644862944273607/DSCF8923_.jpg Title: Growth II Year: 2025 Medium: Steel, Fabric and Latex Dimension: L20cm x W20cm x H12cm https://hongruzhang.com/mutation,-part-of-me 2025-10-10T14:42:51+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/G2420081271913420727764814030023/IMG_5374.JPG Title: Mutation, part of me Year: 2025 Medium: Steel, Fabric and Latex https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/W2420089393664348244679909074119/IMG_1633.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X2420090230187298499260655756487/IMG_1658.jpg Title: Mutation, part of me Year: 2025 Medium: Steel, Fabric and Latex “Mutation, part of me,” depicts an internal shift that is hard to see: slow growth, expansion, and the formation of new shapes. You have the bones of the human body, but something new starts to form, neither entirely foreign nor familiar.I don’t show mutation as a split, more a continuation. The image is about an internal process of becoming. I overlay organic texture onto staged imagined anatomy. Maybe also we can see that change is not what separates us from ourselves, but it’s just another way of being ourselves. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/V2420090423195581742483694314695/IMG_1657.jpg Title: Mutation, part of me Year: 2025 Medium: Steel, Fabric and Latex https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/T2420090679955812504446943257799/IMG_1635.jpg Title：Stretched Form Year: 2025 Medium: Steel, Fabric and Latex “Stretched Form” is about the body in a tense position. It shows skin like materials being stretched to their breaking point almost tearing. It shows something physical and emotional. It shows the pulling and stretching, holding in and tearing apart. It shows pressure and resistance. Steel hooks are essential to the work. They provide anchors and give a sense of skeleton. They feel foreign and invasive. In response, the latex stretches like human skin. It reveals what is underneath. It highlights a sense of vulnerability. The form of the work is also alienated. It comments on identity. It reveals that identity is not set in stone. It is constantly changing and unstable. In addition, it highlights quiet strength. It demonstrates resistance that is contained within the work. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q2468254058691984660046358668487/WhatsApp-Image-2025-07-03-at-12.47.41.jpeg https://hongruzhang.com/profile 2025-10-10T15:10:29+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/B2232315561452512308366566828636/Professor-Georgette-Theyskens.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/K2324868579115223847310044062919/21.jpg