In Mire Lee’s morbid environments, fluids surge, orifices open, and pipes leak, though we are never sure what, or who, comes out of them. “I give birth to myself amid the violence of sobs, of vomit,” Kristeva continues. This image of birth through convulsion captures the pathos of Lee’s regurgitative sculptures.
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The Artist Who Transforms Galleries Into Forests and Fields
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The Artist Who Transforms Galleries Into Forests and Fields
Precious Okoyomon’s vast installations, which often incorporate plants as well as poetry and sculpture, celebrate the chaos of nature, and warn against its destruction.
The artist Precious Okoyomon in their Brooklyn studio.Credit.Emiliano Granado
By Coco Romack
Published May 3, 2021Updated May 5, 2021
“It was the freshest breath of air I’d taken all year, in that closed room with all the snails,” says the artist Precious Okoyomon, recalling the setting of their recent exhibition “Earthseed,” at Frankfurt’s Museum für Moderne Kunst’s Zollamt gallery. The entire floor of the former customs office was covered with several feet of topsoil and in it Okoyomon, 27, had planted a dense green blanket of young kudzu plants, the cultivation of which is illegal in much of th