Anicka Yi, The Postnatal Egg, Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, 2023. © Anicka Yi / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023. Photo: Eric Lubrick, courtesy of Newfields.
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For the collection of kelp pods exhibited at Indianapolis Museum of Art, The Postnatal Egg, Anicka Yi was pondering this state of amorphous potency, imaging a perpetual meta-egg that could traverse different cycles of becoming, in much the same way that a single artwork in a series begets subsequent artworks, subsequent series, and so on.