Kiki Smith

Yi Space is pleased to present Interwoven Visions: The Symbiosis of Body, Nature, and Myth, a solo exhibition by Kiki Smith. Opening on 21 March, this marks Smith’s first institutional solo exhibition in China. Spanning the entire museum, the exhibition offers a wide-ranging view of Smith’s exploration of cultural narratives and the mysteries surrounding the body, the human condition, and the natural world and features twenty-two works in various media, including tapestries, sculptures, and works on paper, created over the past two decades.

Kiki Smith is recognized for her multidisciplinary practice through which she explores embodiment and the natural world. The body, mortality, regeneration, gender politics, as well as the interconnection of spirituality and the natural world are observed through a postmodern lens. Her expansive practice resonates personally and universally, manifesting in sculpture, glassmaking, printmaking, watercolor, photography, and textile, among other art-making forms. Drawn to the cogency of repetition in narratives and symbolic representations, much of Smith’s work is inspired by the visual culture of the past, spanning scientific anatomical renderings from the eighteenth century to the abject imagery of relics, memento mori, folklore, mythology, Byzantine iconography, and medieval altarpieces