The Recipe

September 17 - October 4, 2026
FLOHAUS Gallery
6 Clinton St, New York, NY 10002

Curated by Annie Chen Ziyao

The Recipe looks at the body as something continuously adjusted through the forces around us. Like a recipe passed down, ideas of gender, beauty, discipline, and self-image become ingredients in the making of a body. Within contemporary urban life, especially New York’s dense visual culture, these instructions come from everywhere: advertising, fashion & beauty culture, social expectation, etc. At the same time, the exhibition questions the ideals / pressures that contemporary society places onto the body, and how these forces shape the way we see ourselves. Bringing together four artists working across painting, sculpture, and mixed media, the exhibition asks what happens when these inherited recipes are rewritten.