We Have Never Been Individual
April 23 — June 15, 2019
Brussels
Gladstone is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Anicka Yi entitled We Have Never Been Individual, her first with the gallery. Through her work, Anicka Yi directs us to the dissolving boundaries between the human, animal, and vegetable and emphasizes that the question of who and what we are – what animals and bacteria and plants and machines are – is an open and urgent question. By way of her technosensual explorations of hybridization and contamination, Yi repositions the human in terms of vulnerable co-subjectivity, interdependency, and agitated symbiosis with other lively entities.
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Courtesy of the artist and Pirelli HangarBicocca.
Photo by Lorenzo Palmieri.
Anicka Yi (b. 1971, Seoul, South Korea) lives and works in New York City. Her work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions at institutions around the world, including Leeum, Seoul, South Korea (2024); Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana (2023); Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan (2022); the Hyundai Commission, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London (2021); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2017); Fridericianum, Kassel (2016); Kunsthalle Basel, the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge (MASS.), and The Kitchen, New York (2015); the Cleveland Museum of Art (2014). Yi has also participated in significant group shows, including the Venice Biennale (2019); the Whitney Biennial, New York (2017); the Okayama Art Summit, the Gwangju Biennale (2016); the Taipei Biennial (2014); the Lyon Biennale (2013). Important prizes won by Yi include The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award (2011) and the Guggenheim Hugo Boss Prize (2016).
