Michelle Mi Che is a Corean American interdisciplinary artist working primarily in ceramic sculpture. Her bold, monochromatic works investigate the tensions and contradictions projected onto femininity. Treating the body as a vessel that carries both life and the weight of societal expectation is central to her practice. Che memorializes the ways the female body is commodified, infantilized, and controlled through iconographic sculptures that confront gendered expectations of womanhood. Spikes, wet dripping textures, smooth matte surfaces, bows, and metallic lustres create collisions that show beauty and violence, desire and repulsion, fragility and strength.

Drawing from a background in the sciences, Che incorporates references to biology: reproductive organs, plants, animals, and diseases. She disrupts clean forms with raw fractures and fluid glazes, depicting the body as continuously adapting through cycles of rupture and repair. Her work draws parallels between the extreme evolutionary changes found in nature and the psychic and physical survival strategies forced upon femmes in a patriarchal culture.

CONTACT

chemimichelle@gmail.com
@michelle_mi_che_