My sister in art, Miru Kim, has been up to some cool things at the Lodz Biennale (Poland):
First, she debuted her incredible pig work. I got a sneak peek a few months ago, and she’s slowly rolling it out. It’s a striking evolution from her existing urban exploration work. This time, it focuses on pig farms, pig culture, the way we treat our animals. If you look carefully at the photo below, you’ll see her amongst the pigs.
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And now she’s dabbling in endurance performance. She covered herself in pig mud in a freezing basement for six hours. You looked through a hole (simulated above with Photoshop) in an old wooden door, and on loop was the sound of pigs. If you think that’s extreme, it is. But wait till you see the photos she took in pig farms.
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Project statement:
“You descend into the dark corridors of the subconscious. There is one closed door that looks different from others. An old wooden door. You hear loud grunts coming from behind. It’s a blind door. The door cannot open. However there is a small circular opening in the middle of the door. Curiosity draws your right eye onto the hole. There is a naked woman having a mud bath. It gives her thick skin, she thinks. Like a pig. She wallows in the mud, because she cannot sweat. She watches a moving image of herself with pigs while she covers herself with mud. Pig mud. It came from the soil of a local pig farm. The origin of life. Soil that is at the same time organic waste and nourishment for new crops. Everything ends and begins with the mud.”
