Anicka Yi
Anicka Yi is a conceptual artist who works in fragrances. Her works include boiling shredded Teva(r) 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. She has had a solo show at Lars Feidrich, Berlin and numerous other group shows. Her work has focussed on scent and decay to the point of often dominating where she shows.[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]