Watch me struggle till I reach total immobility

Mingrui Jiang received a grant for the development of a new sculpture series. Watch me struggle till I reach total immobility is developed through blown glass, body casting, and concrete. The work continues Jiang’s investigation into alienation as a shared human condition, focusing on how we are trapped in a loop of craving — driven by a sense of lack that can never be satisfied. It examines how our desires are manufactured and amplified under late capitalist systems, turning indulgence into a futile attempt to fill the void. As these cravings escalate, they begin to work against the body itself, reflecting the emotional and material exhaustion of living in a state of constant hunger.

Mingrui is an Amsterdam-based visual artist originally from China. Her practice melds sculpture, installation, video, and performance to explore existential questions, blur boundaries, and confront social normality in a constant pursuit of the disturbing. Using herself as a medium to play and experiment with different realities, her work is an ongoing investigation of identity that delves into alienation, paradox, internal struggle, and dissimulation. Channeling love, fear, instinct, desire, and excitement to shape absurd worlds, she aims to build a joyful chaos, an uncanny home, a positive tragedy, a serious joke.