Meant to evoke physical sensations and bodily experience, Black Sun: Surface with many holes, section #17 was made in preparation of the artist's first large-scale solo exhibition in the United States at the New Museum, New York (2022).

The work is emblematic of Mire Lee’s lifelong engagement with the topics of intimacy, consumption, tactility, violence, and the female body. Fabricated by dipping fabrics and cloth into slip clay, which are left to harden and dry, the works evoke the appearance and sensorial nature of skin — albeit ripped, shredded, and torn apart. This work emerges from the artist's longstanding concerns of presenting us with the existential and temporary nature of our own flesh. The sensations and visuals in this work are inspired by the visual culture around “vore”, or vorarephilia, a fetish for the consumption or swallowing of another person as an expression of extreme affection or desire for closeness. Like organs laid bare, with no protection, Lee’s sculptures contain a surprising intimacy and beauty, alongside their gore and transgression.