Ming Hong

Artist Statement 

"Part of a larger series, this drawing explores power through depictions of a reimagined body that is both beautiful and grotesque, masculine and feminine, vulnerable and aggressive. By combining the idealized with the abnormal, the system in which some bodies are privileged over another is dismantled. Masculinity no longer prevails over the feminine; strength no longer prevails over the delicate; and stability no longer prevails over the broken. The work considers a more complex spectrum of identity that refutes the idea of valuing the body in terms of our clear-cut definitions and hierarchies."

Amalgamation #3

Graphite on vellum, 30" x 24", 2018