The Hugo Boss Prize 2016: Anicka Yi, Life Is Cheap

Anicka Yi, winner of the 2016 Hugo Boss Prize, discusses the materials in her installations—including cultivated bacteria, ant colonies, and a custom scent—and the themes addressed in her Guggenheim Museum exhibition. She says, “It’s very important for me to foreground [the] relationship between power and culture and perception through the senses.” “The Hugo Boss Prize 2016: Anicka Yi, Life Is Cheap,” is on view at the museum April 21–July 5, 2017.