Mire Lee’s Skin Sculpture from Open Wound formed a central component of her Hyundai Commission at Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall in 2024. As the youngest artist to be awarded this prestigious commission, Lee produced what stands as one of her most ambitious projects to date. The Skin Sculpture is constructed from painted industrial mesh fabric, typically used in construction sites, draped over rebar armatures or skeletons, evoking a sense of bodily vulnerability through its organic, skin-like appearance. These corporeal forms occupied the vast expanse of the Turbine Hall, floating eerily around a large, dripping turbine. With this work, Lee connects the fragility of the human body to that of industrial structures, alluding to ideas of birth, decay, and regeneration. The work invites a critical examination of the intersections between the human condition and the mechanized world, emphasizing the tension between organic vulnerability within the enduring permanence of industrialized systems.