Visceral in every sense of the word, her sculptures leak, wriggle, and stink. This is the work of Mire Lee, a young South Korean sculptor whose practice marries the brute machinery of the industrial world with the goo and guts of the biological one. The sense of release is orgasmic-and gross. Then, all of a sudden, the appendages snap free and spray clay on anyone there to bear witness. Inside, a torqued rod wrapped in ropy limbs-entrails, perhaps, or tentacles-twists slowly and menacingly, tangling in on itself until it looks like it’s about to break. Plastic-lined scaffolding forms a dank, fetid room within a room that appears to sweat. Imagine a meat locker or a mad scientist’s lair: that’s what the New Museum’s fourth floor looks like today. Image courtesy of the artist and New Museum. Mire Lee, "Black Sun" (Installation View), 2023.
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