Hannah Levy's Unsettling Sculptures Between Attraction and Discomfort

American sculptor Hannah Levy builds a language that moves between attraction and discomfort, where the body is never directly represented but always evoked. Her sculptures arise from the encounter between steel, silicone, and glass, materials that imitate skin, flesh, or industrial surfaces, creating hybrid forms that seem familiar and alien at the same time. Her work often starts from everyday objects, medical instruments, domestic structures, functional items that are distorted until they lose their utility. Levy works on the idea of physical and perceptual tension, as if each work were a body subjected to an invisible pressure that suggests an almost sensory relationship with the viewer, between repulsion and attraction. At the center of her research is the relationship between human and artificial, between life and construction, in forms that seem to breathe an ambiguous fragility and inhabit an intermediate territory where design transforms into organism and the body into object. Levy states: 'I am interested in creating objects that seem familiar but force you to reconsider the way you perceive them and the way the body relates to what surrounds it.'