Anicka Yi
Anicka Yi (born 1971 in Seoul, South Korea) is a conceptual artist who works in fragrances. Her works include boiling shredded Teva sandals in recalled powdered milk, stretcher frames of soap, and mixtures of stainless steel shower heads and fish-oil pills “arranged into something elegantly allegorical about the various industries that constitute our identity.“[1]
Anicka Yi lives and works in New York. Her work involves scent, tactility and perishability as a means to reconfigure the epistemological and sensorial terms of a predominantly visual art world.[2]
In her 2015 show, You Can Call Me F, Anicka took swabs from 100 women and with the help of MIT synthetic biologist Tal Danino cultivated the bacteria in an agar billboard that “assaults visitors” to help answer the question “What does feminism smell like?"[3]
She was born in Seoul and has been compared to Joseph Beuys.[4]
Selected exhibitions
Yi's solo exhibitions include Divorce at 47 Canal, New York; Denial at Lars Friedrich, Berlin; SOUS-VIDE, 47 Canal, New York, and Excuse Me, Your Necklace Is Leaking at Green Gallery, Milwaukee. She has been included in numerous group exhibitions at venues including the 12th Biennale de Lyon; Studiolo, Zurich; MoCA, North Miami; Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel; White Flag Projects, Saint Louis; Sculpture Center, New York, White Columns, New York and West Street Gallery. She was awarded a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award in 2011.[5]
References
- ↑ David Everitt Howe, “Anicka Yi”, 2014 FutureGreat”, ArtReview, March 2014]
- ↑ “Anicka Yi” Focus, frieze, January 2014]
- ↑ Lauren O'Neill-Butler, “Anicka Yi – The Kitchen”, Artforum, March 2015]
- ↑ Sarah Nicole Prickett, “Anicka Yi”, Interview, 2014]
- ↑ "Transformer Station".