On Zhang Ding’s High Speed Forms

by Travis Jeppesen on August 2, 2020

The vehicle becomes a metaphor for the body and reminds us of all the ways we routinely surrender control: the ways our agency is increasingly remote-controlled by, among other forces, that grand deity of the twenty-first century, technology.

Zhang Ding, High-Speed Forms #4 (detail), 2019, copper, gold, stainless steel, 90 1⁄2 × 22 7⁄8 × 37 3⁄4".

On Zhang Ding in Artforum.

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