Hannah Levy
Untitled, 2020
Nickel-plated steel, silicone
26 x 19 x 2 ins
66 x 48.3 x 5.1 cm
66 x 48.3 x 5.1 cm
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In Untitled, Hannah Levy suspends a fleshy, silicone asparagus on a gleaming steel armature, transforming the familiar into something sensual and strange. The asparagus—long associated with pleasure, fertility, and appetite—has...
In Untitled, Hannah Levy suspends a fleshy, silicone asparagus on a gleaming steel armature, transforming the familiar into something sensual and strange.
The asparagus—long associated with pleasure, fertility, and appetite—has been both a symbol of refinement and a source of bodily humor throughout history. Levy’s version exaggerates this duality, its supple form caught between allure and discomfort. Like Les Dîners de Gala, where Dalí turned food into a surreal celebration of indulgence and desire, Levy’s work stages a psychological feast, where beauty, consumption, and the body’s impulses are inseparable.
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