# Project Description ROOTED Yuqing Hou Summary Final work Yuqing Hou (b. 1999, China; CSM Fine Art ’25) navigates multicultural contexts as witness and artist through femininity’s lens, propelling continuous identity-boundary inquiry. Her layered practice reconfigures "self-other" dialogues within globalized material-power structures across painting, sculpture, installation, and jewellery, capturing uncategorizable ambiguities in fluid conflict over singular narratives. Yuqing Hou (b. 1999, China; CSM Fine Art ’25) navigates multicultural contexts as witness and art... College Central Saint Martins Course MA Fine Art Graduation year 2025 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. Final work ROOTED Research and process View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery Warning : Contains flashing images Share this project 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 ro... A link to this page has been added to your clipboard Browse related work Body