Mimi Biyao Bai, Harness, 2024, Nylon webbing, rip-stop cotton, thread, elastic, plastic hardware, rubber mallet, ruler, net needle, c-clamps, flashlight, u-lock, seam ripper, utility knife, calligraphy pen, and thread snips, dimensions variable.
More-than-Self-Defense
A.I.R. Gallery
155 Plymouth Street
Brooklyn NY 11201
Opening reception: Saturday, May 25, from 6–8pm
On View: May 25 – June 23, 2024
Hours: Weds - Sun, 12 - 6 pm
In More-than-Self-Defense, Mimi Biyao Bai uses drawing, sculpture, and installation to interrogate how the cultural fantasies we have inherited about violence, safety, and survival collide with our lived realities. Incorporating research into Westerns and action films, fungi, and doomsday preppers, Bai asks: what does it mean to be prepared? How are representations of safety and survival centered around the individual rather than the collective or the structural? What are alternative modes of survival, adaptation, and creation?
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