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Anicka Yi

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New Humans: Memories of the Future

New Museum

2026

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Anicka Yi creates fragrant, tactile sculptures and installations from unconventional materials, soap, potato chips, expired powdered milk, snail slime, tempura-fried flowers, that merge sensory seduction with scientific inquiry. Drawing on biochemistry and anthropology, she uses scent to interrogate artificial intelligence, gender, and climate, subverting conventional aesthetic hierarchies. Her work has been presented at MoMA, the Guggenheim, and the Tate.

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The Flavor Genome

2016 · 3D video, color, sound, 22 min.

Aspect Ratio: 16:9

Whitney Museum of American Art

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Landscape with Figures (Qing dynasty (1644–1911), dated 1883)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Esther Schipper

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Exhibition New Humans: Memories of the Future

2026