Artist field note

Kiki Smith

The vulnerable body remains continuous with the natural world.

Appears inThe Body
Untitled by Kiki Smith
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Untitled

1990

Two wax bodies leak fluids, making the supposedly sealed human form radically permeable.

The five in one idea

Smith makes embodiment a condition shared with animals, stories, mortality and the cosmos.