Hannah Levy

Sculptor Hannah Levy creates multimedia works that redeploy strategies of industrial and product design to reveal the carnal subtexts of living spaces and shared environments. Levy juxtaposes looping metal forms that recall surgical tools or modernist furniture frames with semi-translucent silicone casts of oddly proportioned household items that approximate the pliancy and textures of human skin. These synthetic, fleshy appendages variously droop over the suspended metal structures or lay flaccid along their tubular contours. Underneath their surfaces, Levy’s works explore how design cultures exploit the subconscious urges of consumers and the way public spaces privilege the comfort, desires, and, ultimately, health of particular racial or social groups over others.