Artists on Artists: Anicka Yi x Paul Thek

In this Artists on Artists film, Anicka Yi explores the exhibition Paul Thek: Dream of Vanishing—on view at Pace in New York through August 14—with what psychologists call a “lantern consciousness," inviting open association and reflection. Known for her rigorous research-based practice, Yi creates imaginative installations incorporating unconventional and unexpected organic and human-made materials—from animal and plant matter to mechanical, animatronic, and algorithmic elements—to investigate what she calls a “biopolitics of the senses.” In Thek’s vivid paintings, visceral sculptures, and intimate notebook pages, Yi finds a kindred spirit, one whose artistic concerns have echoes in her own practice: “I feel a deep kinship here.”