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 empty nitrous oxide canisters and melted dental plastic, she produces conditions that behave like bodies. Through leakage, accumulation, and material disobedience, her work examines how bodies are regulated and are 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. There is an eroticism within the porousness of a body that was never sealed to begin with. Her minimal and controlled formal language becomes the container that allows excess to be legible, it emerges through penetration, containment, pressure, and release. She creates work that disturbs, that transgresses, that looks at human pathology and desire without flinching by rendering the uncomfortable decay and viscerality that polite society prefers not to see. 

Her work is rooted in the physical intelligence of materials through labor and embodied making. Using ceramics, steel fabrication, and material play, she subverts familiar processes to examine taboo, technological culture, and the unstable conditions of contemporary life.

CONTACT

toricho6@gmail.com
@pervertheory