Mire Lee

Name: Mire Lee
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Open Wound

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Mire Lee is known for her visceral sculptures, which use kinetic, mechanised elements to invoke the tension between soft forms and rigid systems. Open Wound, her new site-specific work, is a monumental installation that re-imagines Tate Modern as an industrial womb. Reflecting on the building's former... Read More

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Mire Lee is known for her visceral sculptures, which use kinetic, mechanised elements to invoke the tension between soft forms and rigid systems. Open Wound, her new site-specific work, is a monumental installation that re-imagines Tate Modern as an industrial womb. Reflecting on the building's former life as a power station, Open Wound presents the Turbine Hall as a living factory, finding human dreams and desires in sprawling mechanical systems.

Lee populates the space with 'skins', fabric sculptures that hang from the ceiling on metal chains. A motorised turbine slowly spins, discharging a viscous liquid from flesh-like silicone tentacles into a large tray. Throughout the exhibition, the skins are moved by technicians to harden on nearby racks before being hauled into the air. Over time they accumulate, birthed from the body of the building while appearing to shed from the ceiling above.

For Lee, the complex histories of industry are awe-inspiring in their violence and scale. Her work considers the physical and emotional labour of people living in times of precarity and decline, 'witnessing a human, an individual life, getting caught in a larger system'.

In this book, two inspiring new essays and a conversation between the artist and the curators cast light on the full range of Lee's artistic influences and unique point of view. Together they serve as an introduction to one of today's most intriguing and original contemporary artists.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781849769594

Publisher: Tate Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 30 January 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Tate Publishing

Edition: Paperback original

Illustration: Illustrations, color

Contributors:

Contributions by Bilal Akkouche
Text by Dina Akhmadeeva
Edited by Alvin Li
Text by Bilal Akkouche
Producer Bill Jones
Managing editor Nicola Bion
Contributions by Dina Akhmadeeva

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 170.0mm

Height: 240.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 160

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Series: Hyundai Commission

About the Author

Alvin Li is Curator, International Art, Tate Modern Dina Akhmadeeva is Assistant Curator, International Art, Tate Modern Bilal Akkouche is Assistant Curator, International Art at Tate Modern. Bilal is currently working on Middle East and North African Acquisitions Committee, the African Acquisition Committee and the upcoming Turbine Hall Commission 2024.

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