Mire Lee (*1988) is known for her visceral, kinetic installations that probe the tension between eroticism, vulnerability and decay. Informed by her background in sculpture and influences from body horror, fetish culture and poetry, she experiments with an eclectic combination of industrial materials – including silicone, concrete, PVC tubing, lubricants, machinery, electric motors and pumps – to create works that teeter between growth and collapse. Her environments ooze, throb and rumble, evoking both bodily and mechanical functions and resembling living organisms that conjure a sense of the grotesque that is as seductive as it is unsettling.
Anahid Nersessian. Photo: Taghi Naderzad; Rosie Stockton. Photo: Sam Richardson
Mire Lee
Faces
Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
6pm
Join us for a poetry reading and conversation around Mire Lee’s current exhibition, Faces, with Rosie Stockton and Anahid Nersessian, writers based in Los Angeles who engage with similar themes around the body, desire, and impossibility in their poetry and criticism. This event celebrates the final week of Faces, on view through October 25.
Rosie Stockton is the author of Fuel (Nightboat Books, 2025) and Permanent Volta (Nightboat Books, 2021), which was a finalist for the California Book Awards in Poetry. Recent poems have been published by Lithub, Poetry Society of America, Social Text Journal, VOLT, Annulet, and Tripwire. They are currently a PhD Candidate in the Gender Studies Department at UCLA.
Anahid Nersessian is a writer living in Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The London Review of Books, Bookforum, Bidoun, Mousse, and elsewhere. Her most recent book is Keats’s Odes: A Lover’s Discourse (University of Chicago Press, 2021).
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