The Heart of My Machine is Golden Lead
Secession•Jun 26, 2026 — Aug 26, 2026
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Mire Lee’s large-scale immersive installations are often composed of leaking machines and quasi-organic structures that appear to drip and decay. Broken motorised elements seem to strain under their own operation, resisting the seamless efficiency associated with contemporary technology. In place of polished surfaces and frictionless performance, Mire Lee stages a world of resistance, drag, and deterioration. Her uncanny factory-like scenarios render matter unstable and visceral, evoking bodily fluids, flesh, and industrial waste while acting directly on the viewers’ senses and bodies.
At the Secession, the air feels thick – stuffy, hot, almost strained. The exhibition room’s otherwise crisp terrazzo floor bears traces of a viscous substance that spreads and flows down a slanted wall. Over the course of the exhibition, crusts will accumulate, forming a growing skin of rusty scabs. This obstructing partition serves as a barrier that conceals a large cement mixer sluggishly rotating in…
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The Heart of My Machine is Golden Lead
Secession•Jun 26, 2026 — Aug 26, 2026
Press Release
Mire Lee’s large-scale immersive installations are often composed of leaking machines and quasi-organic structures that appear to drip and decay. Broken motorised elements seem to strain under their own operation, resisting the seamless efficiency associated with contemporary technology. In place of polished surfaces and frictionless performance, Mire Lee stages a world of resistance, drag, and deterioration. Her uncanny factory-like scenarios render matter unstable and visceral, evoking bodily fluids, flesh, and industrial waste while acting directly on the viewers’ senses and bodies.
At the Secession, the air feels thick – stuffy, hot, almost strained. The exhibition room’s otherwise crisp terrazzo floor bears traces of a viscous substance that spreads and flows down a slanted wall. Over the course of the exhibition, crusts will accumulate, forming a growing skin of rusty scabs. This obstructing partition serves as a barrier that conceals a large cement mixer sluggishly rotating in…
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