Perpetual Temptation
Capsule•Nov 08, 2025 — Dec 24, 2025
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Capsule is pleased to present New York-based artist Miranda Fengyuan Zhang’s second solo exhibition at the gallery “Perpetual Temptation”, on view from November 8 to December 24, 2025. The exhibition marks Zhang’s first official foray into sculpture, featuring a suite of ceramic works modeled after a large right foot with a truncated big toe. Cast from the body of one of the artist’s acquaintances, each sculpture fuses a human foot with a fish’s tail. The surreal amalgams, partially submerged in the bases of custom-built vitrines, inflect the other works on view with allegory. Faced with two sets of weavings haunted by the recurring image of a blue bubble, which appears in varying guises – small and matte, large and shiny, pixelated, or fragmented – one recalls the bubbles into which Hans Christian Anderson’s little mermaid dissolves after suffering acute pain in her feet while walking on dry land. The works in which the bubble appears fragmented suggest an impossibility: the film…
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Perpetual Temptation
Capsule•Nov 08, 2025 — Dec 24, 2025
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Capsule is pleased to present New York-based artist Miranda Fengyuan Zhang’s second solo exhibition at the gallery “Perpetual Temptation”, on view from November 8 to December 24, 2025. The exhibition marks Zhang’s first official foray into sculpture, featuring a suite of ceramic works modeled after a large right foot with a truncated big toe. Cast from the body of one of the artist’s acquaintances, each sculpture fuses a human foot with a fish’s tail. The surreal amalgams, partially submerged in the bases of custom-built vitrines, inflect the other works on view with allegory. Faced with two sets of weavings haunted by the recurring image of a blue bubble, which appears in varying guises – small and matte, large and shiny, pixelated, or fragmented – one recalls the bubbles into which Hans Christian Anderson’s little mermaid dissolves after suffering acute pain in her feet while walking on dry land. The works in which the bubble appears fragmented suggest an impossibility: the film…
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