The large-scale sculptures in Morning After merge breakfast imagery and sexual motifs to construct a psychoscape of desire, indulgence, and vulnerability. Seductive at first glance, these works hover between appetite and excess, intimacy and exposure, pleasure and discomfort. Familiar domestic forms are exaggerated, hybridized, and materially distorted, transforming everyday rituals of consumption into charged emotional landscapes. Adding to this discomfort, Ling-lin Ku fuses handcrafted and digitally fabricated elements to create sculptures that feel tactile yet uncanny. Through this interplay of attraction and unease, Morning After invites viewers to confront the messy intersections of fantasy, longing, and embodiment.

About the Artist:   Ling-lin Ku is a sculptor whose studio practice merges traditional techniques with emerging technologies, resulting in sculptural installations that are materially rich, playful, and conceptually layered. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, with solo exhibitions at CUE Art Foundation (NYC), 18th Street Arts Center (LA), La Heurta Gallery (Barcelona), and Atelier 11 (Paris). She is the recipient of the Seebach Prize in Fine Art from the American Austrian Foundation, the Houston Artadia Fellowship, and the International Sculpture Center’s Innovator Award. Ling-lin earned her MFA at the University of Texas at Austin and was previously an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Studio Art at Oberlin College.

Morning After was supported, in part, by a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant.