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"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",
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"id": 205241,
"title": "Anicka Yi: Death",
"description": "Anicka Yi: Death. Transformer Station, Cleveland, OH (October 11, 2014-January 17, 2015).",
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"description": "Anicka Yi: Divorce. 47 Canal, New York (April 30 - June 8, 2014).",
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"did_you_know": "One door contains a custom scent called \u201cDivorce,\u201d which contains pungent notes that are spicy and animalistic.",
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"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",
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"citation": "Creahan, D. \u201cAnicka Yi: \u2018Divorce\u2019 at 47 Canal Through June 8th, 2014.\u201d Art Observed (June 9, 2014).",
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"citation": "Rutland, Beau and Th\u00fcring, Reto. \u201cAcquisition Highlights 2014: Contemporary Art.\u201d Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 55, no. 2 (March/April 2015): 25.",
"page_number": "Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 25",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2015-02"
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"citation": "Burton, Johanna. \u201cSplit Subjects: Johanna Burton on Anicka Yi at 47 Canal, New York.\u201d Texte Zur Kunst no. 95 (September 2014): 213-215.",
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"citation": "Prickett, Sarah Nicole. \u201cAnicka Yi.\u201d Interview Magazine (October 10, 2014).",
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"citation": "Rosenberg, Karen. \u201cAnicka Yi: \u2018Divorce.\u2019\u201d The New York Times (May 22, 2014): C26.",
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"citation": "Aloi, Giovanni, Rachel C. Lee, Merlin Sheldrake, and Pirelli HangarBicocca (Milan, Italy). Anicka Yi: Metaspore. 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.",
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