Mire Lee
Endless House: Holes and Drips Tilburg prototype #2, 2021
Fired clay
Dimensions:
29 1/4 x 10 x 8 1/4 inches
74 x 25 x 21 cm
29 1/4 x 10 x 8 1/4 inches
74 x 25 x 21 cm
This clay sculpture was made in preparation for Mire Lee's 2022 installation Endless House: Holes and Drips, shown at the 59th Venice Biennale exhibition The Milk of Dreams. The work...
This clay sculpture was made in preparation for Mire Lee's 2022 installation Endless House: Holes and Drips, shown at the 59th Venice Biennale exhibition The Milk of Dreams. The work derives its title from the work of Austrian architect Frederick Kiesler, who spent years conceptualizing the "Endless House," a continuous living space lacking clear divisions between rooms. Reminiscent of an organism or womb, the curved walls and spheroid shape of Kiesler’s Endless House is repeated in Lee’s work. The bone-colored clay of this sculpture has been formed into an undulating, hollow shape, its irregular surface scattered with holes and dips. Coupled with its organic form, the sculpture’s porous texture blurs the distinction between inside and outside, suggesting the merging of self and other.
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