Night Writing
Artist
Anicka Yi(American, born Korea 1971)American, born Korea 1971
CultureAmerican
Titles
- Night Writing
Date2025
MediumPMMA optical fiber, LEDs, silicone, acrylic, epoxy, aluminum, stainless steel, steel, brass, motors and microcontrollers
DimensionsAt rest: 47 5/8 × 24 13/16 × 23 5/8 in. (121 × 63 × 60 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment
Object number2025.415
Not on view
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Department
Modern and Contemporary ArtObject Type
Exhibition History“Anicka Yi: Karmic Debt,” Houston: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, June 29–September 7, 2025
Related Radiolaria were introduced in Anicka Yi: There Exists Another Evolution, But In This One, Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, September 5–December 29, 2024, which traveled to the UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, March 22–June 6, 2025.
Published References Anicka Yi: Karmic Debt reviews: Elliot, Amber, “Summer at MFAH: Spend a day in 68 degrees among Indian textiles, “biologized machines,” creative AI,” Houston Chronicle, July 11, 2025: http://houstonchronicle.com/entertainment/art_exhibits/article/summer-mfah-parpia-anicka-yi-20759622.php Müller, Anna, “Anicka Yi and the Poetics of Interdependence,” Aesthetica (July 4, 2025): https://aestheticamagazine.com/anicka-yi-and-thepoetics-of-interdependence/ Additional articles: Dickie, Anna and Anicka Yi, “Anicka Yi: Everything, everywhere, all at once,” Ocula (September 5, 2024): https://ocula.com/magazine/conversations/anicka-yi-everything-everywhere-all-at-once/. Chisholm, Aiden, “Uncertain Afterlives, Anicka Yi’s ‘There Exists Another Evolution, But In This One,’” Impulse (December 13, 2024): https://impulsemagazine.com/symposium/uncertain-afterlives-anicka-yis-there-exists-another-evolution-but-in-this-one Kwon, Mee-yoo, “Embracing uncertainties in Art: All Senses Awakened at Anicka Yi’s Largest Asia Exhibit at Leeum Museum,” Korea Times (September 4, 2024): http://koreatimes.co.kr/www/art/2025/01/398_381861.html Park, Jaeyong, “Anika Yi’s Web of Care,” Frieze (November 12, 2024): https://www.frieze.com/article/anicka-yi-there-exists-another-evolution-but-in-this-one-2024-review Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
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Catalogue raisonnéN.A.
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2023-2024
PMMA optical fiber, LEDs, silicone, acrylic, epoxy, aluminum, stainless steel, steel, brass, motors and microcontrollers
2025.414
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2011
Optical glass, black-and-white film, unknown hyper-clear silicone adhesive, cypress wood pedestal, black finished steel base, edition 1/1
2012.262
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2024
Single channel video with 5.1 channel surround sound
2025.20
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1987
.A: Porcelain, stainless steel, unknown casting resin, unknown dye, silicone adhesive, wood, brass.
B: Engraved brass, two brass-headed picture hanging nails
2016.102.A,.B
James Frederick Woell
1978
Copper, silicone rubber, fiberglass screen, paper, steel, gold leaf, and paperclip
2002.4114
Ingo Maurer
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2000.117
Jenny Holzer
2015
Horizontal LED: RGB diodes, stainless steel housing, edition 5/6
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