The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 18, 2024
Washing Away of Wrongs
2014
(American, b. 1971)
Overall: 304.8 x 332.7 x 67.3 cm (120 x 131 x 26 1/2 in.)
Gift of the Contemporary Art Society 2014.403
Location: not on view
Did You Know?
One door contains a custom scent called “Divorce,” which contains pungent notes that are spicy and animalistic.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, “Two industrial laundry dryer doors transmit scents—one 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—prehistoric wetland, brackish vegetation, yellow throated bullfrog. . . .”- Collection of the artist; acquired by the CMA from 47 Canal, New York in 2014.
- Creahan, D. “Anicka Yi: ‘Divorce’ at 47 Canal Through June 8th, 2014.” Art Observed (June 9, 2014).Burton, Johanna. “Split Subjects: Johanna Burton on Anicka Yi at 47 Canal, New York.” Texte Zur Kunst no. 95 (September 2014): 213-215. Reproduced and Mentioned p. 214.Prickett, Sarah Nicole. “Anicka Yi.” Interview Magazine (October 10, 2014).Rosenberg, Karen. “Anicka Yi: ‘Divorce.’” The New York Times (May 22, 2014): C26.
- Anicka Yi: Death. Transformer Station, Cleveland, OH (October 11, 2014-January 17, 2015).Anicka Yi: Divorce. 47 Canal, New York (April 30 - June 8, 2014).
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