Hannah Levy’s Untitled fuses sensuality and restraint in a composition that feels both corporeal and architectural. The nickel-plated steel bar, curved and thorned, recalls a ballet barre or medical instrument—objects meant to support or correct the body. At its center, a handblown glass gourd swells like an organ or fruit, fragile yet self-contained.

Levy’s sculptures often balance elegance and discomfort, drawing from the language of design and bodily vulnerability. Here, the polished surface reflects control and refinement, while the thorns interrupt its function, suggesting the cost of grace. Placed at the height of a dancer’s reach, the work becomes a quiet study in tension—between beauty and danger, discipline and desire. Like Dalí, Levy explores the seduction of precision and the surreal potential of form, where the mechanical and the organic meet in uneasy harmony.