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Artificial intelligence, mushroom spores and peanut butter: on Anicka Yi’s unique brand of science-infused conceptualismKorean American artist Anicka Yi (born 1971) creates sculptures and installations that subvert the concepts of natural and synthetic, generating hybrid and symbiotic entities through the employment of the bacteria and technological devices in her work. Yi has collaborated with a range of professionals, including engineers, chemists and other scientists, with whom she carries out ambitious projects aimed at investigating new possibilities of exchange and interaction between living organisms and artificial intelligence.Metaspore is the most extensive monograph ever devoted to the artist, published to coincide with her solo exhibition of the same name at Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan. The volume examines her practice in detail, presenting a wide selection of installations created by Yi from 2010 to now. The catalog includes photographic documentation of the exhibition along with critical essays and thematic analyses.

The most extensive monograph to date on an emerging South African multimedia artistSouth African artist Dineo Seshee Bopape (born 1981) works across sculpture, drawing and video, weaving narratives that investigate archetypes and myths in which the female figure plays a central role. This volume, accompanying her survey show at Pirelli HangarBicocca (Milan), presents a wide selection from the artist's oeuvre.

Lush multimedia landscapes blend dreamlike narratives and folk traditions to reflect upon the colonization of VietnamInspired by the geography of Vietnam, Thao Nguyen Phan (born 1987) combines literature, oral tales, fairy tales and myths to trace the history of her home country and reconstruct its cultural heritage, addressing pressing issues related to contemporary environmental and social changes.