Lee Bul’s Synthetic Angels of History

Her sculptures for The Met’s facade commission look like they’ve always been there, Frankensteined in the bowels of the museum’s ethnographic collections.

Lee Bul’s Synthetic Angels of History
Lee Bul, "Long Tail Halo: CTCS #2" (2024) on the façade of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (photo Hakim Bishara/Hyperallergic)