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ArtEvol 2025 / Chantelle Chong
XXX_03 , 2024 Steel, latex 100 × 65 × 65 cm
Chantelle Chong is a Singapore-born multidisciplinary designer based in London. Chong works fluidly across digital and physical media, with a practice spanning installation, drawing, animation, film and object-making in both two and three dimensions. At the intersection of architectural language and technology, Chong explores the soft boundaries of the body and the nuances of lived experience.
Artwork Introduction
XXX_03 examines the body as a site of control, transformation and desire, shaped by the pressures of self-idealisation and the social codes that enforce them. A latex form, sensuous yet synthetic, is stretched, pierced and constrained within an unyielding steel frame. Its hourglass silhouette evokes the tension between submission and resistance, confronting the violence of internalised ideals. Alluding to historical mechanisms of bodily control used to discipline, disguise and eroticise, the work interrogates how identity is constructed through systems of body fetishisation, self-surveillance and self-design. Positioned low to the ground, the sculpture extends an invitation to kneel before it and partake in its deformation by pulling the tension cables, offering a gesture of release from its contorted form.
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