Recently Collater.al talked about the dark and surreal work of the painter and sculptor Hans Ruedi Giger, a “passport to hell” as it was defined in the article. Right now you can learn more about the Swiss artist’s work in the exhibition dedicated to him at the Schinkel Pavilion in Berlin. In the exhibition – which will continue until January 2, 2022 – Giger’s xenomorphs dialogue with the production of another artist: Mire Lee.

Born in 1988, South Korean from Seoul but Amsterdam-based, Mire Lee draws from the same alien imagery of Giger, removing any form of anthropomorphism in favor of abstract and slimy weaves of shapeless masses.
The works exhibited at Belino are a dark analysis of the bowels of man, installations from a mechanized and chemical future. In works such as Carriers, Large Egg, Faces or The Liars silicone, PVC, pipes, chains and cement describe the stages of a cycle of metamorphosis, capable of creating an alien and prenatal world.
The motorized bodies as well as the consistency, or slimy appearance, of the works generate a fetishism that coincides with a moment of strong eroticism.
The nausea and excitement of Mire Lee’s bodies is enhanced by the light of the exhibition, which enhances every inch of surface and creates shadows that create a sense of degradation and abandonment, typical of the feeling of vorarephilia, the desire to eat someone or be eaten.
The exhibition “HR Giger & Mire Lee,” curated by Agnes Gryczkowska, creates a coherent thematic dialogue between two experimenters in the field of deformations of the psyche and the human body.