You Exist Too Much

Zula Tuvshinbat’s (b.1988) debut solo exhibition brings the body into view using the stereotypically feminized medium of tufting. Though the objects are materially soft, the artist combines them with sharp metals and playfully provocative messages. Many of the works evoke the poses and language now-pervasive in social media and made possible by internet technology. Transformed into installations, tufted tapestries, and sculpture, Tuvshinbat’s art relates to a longer global history of craft as a form of critique. And in the digital age, if images of ourselves exist seemingly everywhere, how has our perspective of the body and sexuality changed?

Zula studies contextual painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, where she lives and works.