Yuqing Hou

This work employs wool felt as a medium to reconstruct a heterogeneoussymbiotic relationship between the female pelvis and a phalaenopsis orchid, initiating a critical dialogue on power discipline, bodily sovereignty, and erotic autonomy. 

The orchid’s roots invade the pelvic structure with puncturing gestures, their entangled forms appropriating the colonial logic of botanical systems. Through the subversion of botanical symbolism, the work shifts from "natural metaphor" to "corporeal sovereignty": The floral core simulates the abdominal morphology of female bees, adapted for pollinator interaction—a structure I hybridize with female anatomy to metaphorize the passive adaptation of the body under societal gaze. Yet the morphogenesis of the floral core does not objectify female organs; instead, it transmutes desire from a spectated object into a material praxis of autonomous inscription. 

Within the warp-and-weft network of wool fibers, a Deleuzian "body without organs" emerges—a fluid political terrain of the body constructed through fiber penetrations and entanglements.