Ming-Miao Ko BADAFF

Ming-Miao Ko

Ko’s practice explores the fluidity between corporeality and meaning-making, moving toward a non-dichotomous approach that blurs the boundaries between body and object, human and non-human, nature and culture. Through this lens, her creative process emerges from the entangled relations between the biological and the constructed, questioning objectification and dehumanisation within an anthropocentric world.


The subtle attention to detail in her work, as well as her sensitivity to material and scale, can be traced back to her background in contemporary jewellery. This training informs her intimate approach to form and surface.


In her sculptures, Ko draws on parallels and reactivates metaphors embedded in symbols, shapes, and associations drawn from nature, daily life, and human anatomy. She reinterprets these elements to evoke transformation, genesis, sensual presence, and hybrid becoming. Her works unfold as dynamic, evolving entities that resist fixed categorisation.


Through delicate porcelain forms, Ko creates an uncanny, surreal symbiosis that reflects the fragile condition of bodies suspended between being and becoming. Her practice invites viewers to contemplate relational interconnectedness and the vital cycles that bind human and non-human existence into a shared assemblage.