BIO



Tori Cho's sculptural practice stages the body as a site of failed containment. Working across plaster, hot glue, silicone, ceramics, and steel, alongside the material residue of pharmaceutical and industrial excess such as spent nitrous oxide canisters, melted plastic, she builds forms that refuse to resolve into stable objects. They bulge, tilt, ooze, and duplicate. She produces conditions that behave like bodies. Through leakage, accumulation, and material disobedience, her work examines how bodies and systems are regulated, made legible, and continuously reconfigured.

Across the work, she reclaims the word pervert as an orientation: a position where rather than turning away from what disgusts, to turns toward it. The erotic here roots in the porousness of a body that was never sealed to begin with. Her minimal, controlled formal language becomes the very container that allows excess to be legible, staged just tightly enough that it can thicken, swell, and threaten to spill. 

 Her work is rooted in the physical intelligence of materials through touch, labor, and embodied making. Using ceramics, steel, industrial materials, and organic processes to examine contemporary existence, technological culture, and the unstable conditions of living in the present. 

CONTACT

toricho6@gmail.com
@pervertheory