Each Branch of Coral Holds Up the Light of the Moon

2024
Single channel video projection
Duration: 16:04 min
Dimensions variable
Winsing Arts Collection

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Courtesy the artist and Esther Schipper, Berlin/Paris/Seoul © the artist / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025 Photo © the artist

Each Branch of Coral Holds Up the Light of the Moon

2024
Single channel video projection
Duration: 16:04 min
Dimensions variable
Winsing Arts Collection

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In recent years, Yi has explored how her work might be able to continue after her lifetime. Following the death of her sister in 2018, she began to think about how emergent machine intelligence might allow her to think differently about her artistic legacy. As she put it, “I don’t really want to stop making art after my biological body ceases to function.”

Working with her studio and some software engineers, Yi has developed a project she calls“Emptiness,” inspired partially by Buddhist teachings, that is centered around an algorithm for a post-death studio practice. She has trained the software on the studio’s processes and methods, as well as her entire catalog of works and preparatory research, with the goal that it might eventually generate complete artworks. Yi intends for the Emptiness software to acts as a digital collaborator, archivist, and storyteller.

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Artist Biography

Anicka Yi

Anicka Yi was born in 1971 in Seoul, Korea, and currently lives and works in New York. She has held solo exhibitions at major arts institutions, including her first large-scale outdoor site-specific installation at Storm King Art Center in New York (2026), UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing (2025), Leeum Samsung Museum of Art in Korea (2024), a commission for the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern in London (2021), the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York (2017), the Whitney Biennial (2017), and The Kitchen in New York (2015). Yi is the recipient of the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award (2011) and the Hugo Boss Prize (2016). Anicka Yi's works is held in the collections of numerous major international art institutions, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, Tate Modern in London, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Pinault Collection in Paris.

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