ANICKA YI
The Flavor Genome , 2016 3D video installation, color sound, 22 min. Courtesy the Rosenkranz Collection Promised gift, Whitney Museum of American Art
Anicka Yi’s 3D film The Flavor Genome (2016) follows a flavor chemist in dream-like pursuit of an elusive plant with purported sense-altering properties in the Amazon rain forest of Brazil. In a series of surreal juxtapositions, the artist is shown compiling data in an orchid greenhouse and the rainforest, and animated cells and micro-organisms appear alongside sensual depictions of aromas and tastes. Pairing science fiction with a bio-technological scientific vocabulary, the artist questions the underlying impetus of progress that drives science and renders everything functional, useful, and quantifiable. Her fore- grounding of hybridization and the immaterial properties of scent and bacterial mutation asserts the threshold of the visible in order to address the consequences of this impetus, and the resource depletion in the Global South resulting from the unchecked consumption of Western societies.
Top: Installation view: AnickaYi, The Flavor Genome , 2016, in Mountain / Time , Aspen Art Museum, 2022. Photo: Carter Seddon
Bottom. Anicka Yi, The Flavor Genome , 2016. 3D video, color sound, 22 min. Courtesy the artist and the Rosenkranz Collection. (still)
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