{"data": {"id": 171637, "accession_number": "2014.403", "share_license_status": "Copyrighted", "tombstone": "Washing Away of Wrongs, 2014. Anicka Yi (Korean, b. 1971). 2 stainless steel dryer doors, Plexiglas, diffuser, 2 fragrances designed by Christophe Laudamiel - Traennen and Bullfrog; overall: 304.8 x 332.7 x 67.3 cm (120 x 131 x 26 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Contemporary Art Society, 2014.403", "current_location": null, "title": "Washing Away of Wrongs", "creation_date": "2014", "creation_date_earliest": 2014, "creation_date_latest": 2014, "artists_tags": ["female", "Asian American"], "culture": ["America"], "technique": "2 stainless steel dryer doors, Plexiglas, diffuser, 2 fragrances designed by Christophe Laudamiel - Traennen and Bullfrog", "support_materials": [], "department": "Contemporary Art", "collection": "CONTEMP - Sculpture", "type": "Sculpture", "measurements": "Overall: 304.8 x 332.7 x 67.3 cm (120 x 131 x 26 1/2 in.)", "dimensions": {"overall": {"height": 3.048, "height_inch": 120, "height_inch_fraction": 0.0, "width": 3.327, "width_inch": 131, "width_inch_fraction": 0.0, "depth": 0.673, "depth_inch": 26, "depth_inch_fraction": 0.5}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 205241, "title": "Anicka Yi: Death", "description": "<i>Anicka Yi: Death</i>. Transformer Station, Cleveland, OH (October 11, 2014-January 17, 2015).", "opening_date": "2014-10-11T00:00:00"}], "legacy": [{"description": "Anicka Yi: Divorce. 47 Canal, New York (April 30 - June 8, 2014).", "opening_date": "2014-04-30T00:00:00"}]}, "provenance": [{"description": "Collection of the artist; acquired by the CMA from 47 Canal, New York in 2014.", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": null, "sortorder": null}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "One door contains a custom scent called \u201cDivorce,\u201d which contains pungent notes that are spicy and animalistic.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "Anicka Yi defies expectations with her artworks that poetically engage all the human senses from touch to scent. This work was inspired by the strong emotions that are experienced when a relationship ends. Two industrial dryer doors, as seen in laundromats, each contain a different, original scent that speaks to the experience of loss and separation; accordingly, these scents are less than pleasant. She says, \u201cTwo industrial laundry dryer doors transmit scents\u2014one abstract, one representational, two separate systems, both a washing away of wrongs. Take in notes of fried intersections, brooms sweeping up situations, folded cardboard. . . . The other door trickles out a different rhythm of presence through absence\u2014prehistoric wetland, brackish vegetation, yellow throated bullfrog. . . .\u201d", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60781280"], "internet_archive": []}, "citations": [{"citation": "Creahan, D. \u201cAnicka Yi: \u2018Divorce\u2019 at 47 Canal Through June 8th, 2014.\u201d <em>Art Observed</em> (June 9, 2014).", "page_number": null, "url": null}, {"citation": "Rutland, Beau and Th\u00fcring, Reto. \u201cAcquisition Highlights 2014: Contemporary Art.\u201d <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em> 55, no. 2 (March/April 2015): 25.", "page_number": "Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 25", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2015-02"}, {"citation": "Burton, Johanna. \u201cSplit Subjects: Johanna Burton on Anicka Yi at 47 Canal, New York.\u201d <em>Texte</em> <em>Zur Kunst</em> no. 95 (September 2014): 213-215.", "page_number": "Reproduced and Mentioned p. 214.", "url": null}, {"citation": "Prickett, Sarah Nicole. \u201cAnicka Yi.\u201d <em>Interview Magazine</em> (October 10, 2014).", "page_number": null, "url": null}, {"citation": "Rosenberg, Karen. \u201cAnicka Yi: \u2018Divorce.\u2019\u201d <em>The New York Times</em> (May 22, 2014): C26.", "page_number": null, "url": null}, {"citation": "Aloi, Giovanni, Rachel C. Lee, Merlin Sheldrake, and Pirelli HangarBicocca (Milan, Italy). <em>Anicka Yi: Metaspore. </em>Interview by Anicka Yi. Edited by Fiammetta Griccioli, Vicent Todoli, and Remina Greenfield. Translated by Johanna Bishop and Laura Guidetti. First edition. Venezia, [Milan]: Marsilio arte ; Pirelli HangarBicocca, 2022.", "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 184-185, fig. 1", "url": ""}], "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2014.403", "images": {}, "alternate_images": [], "creditline": "Gift of the Contemporary Art Society", "image_credit": null, "sketchfab_id": null, "sketchfab_url": null, "gallery_donor_text": null, "athena_id": 171637, "creators": [{"id": 65222, "description": "Anicka Yi (Korean, b. 1971)", "extent": null, "qualifier": null, "role": "artist", "biography": null, "name_in_original_language": null, "birth_year": "1971", "use_in_caption": true, "include_extent": false, "weight": 1}], "legal_status": "accessioned", "accession_date": "2014-12-01T00:00:00", "sortable_date": 2014, "date_added_to_oa": null, "date_text": "2014", "collapse_artists": false, "on_loan": false, "recently_acquired": false, "record_type": "object", "conservation_statement": null, "has_conservation_images": false, "cover_accession_number": null, "is_nazi_era_provenance": false, "impression": null, "alternate_titles": [], "is_highlight": false, "updated_at": "2026-06-11 12:17:40.529000"}}