Anicka Yi – The Art of Smell

Anicka Yi creates intensive, sensory experiences using biological manipulation and living organisms. Smell is a major component in her work, as are the narratives behind the unusual materials she combines into disturbing, foreign combinations. In her piece Grabbing at Newer Vegetables, she collected bacteria from 100 female acquaintances to create a single female super-bacteria, as a testament to the biological networks that exist beneath our social reality. Her unusual art materials include Girl Scout cookies, batteries, ants, oxytocin-injected snails, and recalled powdered milk. Creators met Anicka to discuss the selection process behind her materials and subject manner, and how she uses them to create art that makes us aware of the uncomfortable, biological, repressed parts of human existence.
Source: vice.com