Anicka Yi

Artist Statement

My practice explores the way language, media, and economy mediate technologies of the self and ways in which art making can be pushed towards an expanded notion of the sensorial. I am interested in connections between materials and materialism, states of perishability and their relationship to meaning and value, consumerist digestion and cultural metabolism, stomachs as biological metaphor, scent, the fragrance industry as memory machine and post-humanist theory with it’s sociopolitical implications for the body, the senses. My interest in the sensorial stems from the limits of its portability and transmissibility as a subjective experience and a desire to reorder and reconfigure the spatial and experiential terms of a strictly visual art.

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    Anicka Yi
    Born 1971, South Korea
    L’Haine
    2011
    Turtleneck sweater with bouquet of tempura fried flowers
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    Anicka Yi
    Born 1971, South Korea
    L’Haine
    2011
    Turtleneck sweater with bouquet of tempura fried flowers
    dimensions variable

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    Anicka Yi
    Born 1971, South Korea
    L’Haine
    2011
    Turtleneck sweater with bouquet of tempura fried flowers
    dimensions variable

  • i < > enlarge

    Anicka Yi
    Born 1971, South Korea
    L’Haine
    2011
    Turtleneck sweater with bouquet of tempura fried flowers
    dimensions variable

  • i < > enlarge

    Anicka Yi
    Born 1971, South Korea
    L’Haine
    2011
    Turtleneck sweater with bouquet of tempura fried flowers
    dimensions variable

  • i < > enlarge

    Anicka Yi
    Born 1971, South Korea
    L’Haine I-V
    2011
    Turtleneck sweater with bouquet of tempura fried flowers
    dimensions variable

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    Portrait of Anicka Yi drawn by Devon Dikeou
    2017
    Pencil on Paper