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The Deborah Martin Gallery will be exhibiting with the Downtown Gallery Association- LA Art Show January 20-24th. SYNAPSES Artist Reception & LIVE Interactive Installation: Interactive Installation: With their bodies connected by shared organs and appendages, live models wear Ye’s latex sculptures in the Deborah Martin Gallery. An experiment in compromise and confrontation, this interactive performance makes literal the relationships that bind humans together.
Kim Ye offers a fiercely intelligent body of work that provokes both fascination and discomfort. In the tradition of William Burroughs, JG Ballard, Donna Harraway, and Jana Sterbak’s infamous “Flesh Dress,” Ye’s anatomical objects populate a captivating interzone of flesh and polymer that blur the boundaries between synthetic and biological.
She is a master of composition and decomposition of new organic form, fully coherent in its execution. Her edgy vision is matched by an alchemist’s command of her materials - latex, nylon, human hair, silicone, wire and wood – whose mad genius betrays the sensibilities of seamstress and surgeon.
At play is a distorted and unrelenting fantasy of organic yet surgically-fabricated humanoid hybrids and cyborgs. Ye’s exquisitely disturbing creations suggest gynecological mutation (umbilical artifact, displaced placenta, intestinal catastrophe), or neurological prolapse of dendrite and synapse, or even post-apocalyptic intestinally-conjoined humanoids lounging on beds of sea kelp.
Yet Ye’s brutally delicate chimeras somehow comfort as much as they disturb – they are totems of our shared human vulnerability and dislocation. Her organisms’ unlikely eroticism transcend repellence and beauty, offering a peculiar familiarity and invoking a surprising sense of tenderness and affinity.
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