After Nature is a two-person exhibition featuring works by Noémie Jennifer Bonnet and Ziyi Zhang, whose distinct practices—spanning sculpture and painting—intersect around shared inquiries into time, transformation, and the shifting nature of perception.

The exhibition’s title suggests not an end, but a turning: an exploration of what remains, what shifts, and what begins anew in the wake of changing ecological, cultural, and technological landscapes.

Bonnet’s work explores the present as a liminal space—held in tension between memory and becoming. Her sculptures reflect on mortality not as an end point, but as an opening: a chance to redirect attention beyond the self toward interconnection and renewal. Shaped from a mix of materials—including drift-bone fragments, water chestnut seed pods, paper clay, natural oxides, resin, and driftwood—her forms echo both the human and more-than-human. These organism-like structures embrace ambiguity, giving physical form to what she describes as the eerie mix of enchantment and ecological grief that defines life in an era of global flux. Her pieces hover between solidity and dissolution, inviting viewers into an awareness of our bodily and environmental dependencies.

Zhang’s work, by contrast, moves fluidly between digital and physical realms. Her paintings are not only informed by this duality—they are born from it. Blending robotic technology, and painterly techniques, the screen and the studio form a shared landscape, where image-making is redefined by the hybrid conditions of contemporary life. Snippets of personal text—drawn from casual exchanges and private moments—float across the surfaces of her work, acting as emotional cues rather than direct commentary. Each piece is titled after the date it began in the digital world—its “birthday”—creating a quiet architecture of time and presence.

After Nature is not a lament for what’s lost, but an inquiry into what it means to be in the world now—attuned to its layers, its ruptures, and its continuities. While Bonnet and Zhang differ in medium and method, both artists root their work in a present moment that is inseparable from the past and oriented toward the future. Their practices converge in the now: a space of fragile clarity, where transformation is both lived and imagined.

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ABOUT THE ARTIST

Noémie Bonnet (b. 1985, Tremblay-en-France, France) is an artist based in the Hudson Valley of New York. She rearranges animal bones that were discarded as industrial waste, invasive plants, driftwood, and sculpted elements into organism-like objects both familiar and alienating. In their fusion of gloom and whimsy, they whisper a reminder of collective vulnerability as their tentacled, swaying forms offer prompts for enchantment with the physical world. She has shown her work with Flux Factory, Hauser & Wirth, and White Columns, among others. She holds a BA from Brown University and an MFA from CUNY Hunter College. Her current studio in Newburgh, NY, is in a 1920s warehouse building that formerly housed a mattress factory.


Ziyi Zhang (b.1999, Beijing) is a cross-disciplinary project artist based in Chicago, IL. She holds a BFA with a minor in philosophy from Washington University in St. Louis (2021) and an MFA in painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2023). Her work has been featured in Digital America, Floorr Magazine, Visual Atelier 8, etc, and exhibited at Levant Art (Shanghai), Oneart Gallery (Beijing), Plexus Projects (NYC), The Wrong Biennale, among others.