How I Know I'm Here

Kiki Smith works in a wide range of materials, including sculpture, with which she has had a great impact on contemporary art. She is also a tirelessly experimental and adventurous printmaker. Smith's work is heavily concerned with birth, sexuality, regeneration and religion (broadly), and these themes are brought down to an intimate level through subconscious associations and the importance of the body. Here the body is the sum of its myriad internal and external parts, becoming "evidence of the process of life." This pairing down to the material stuff of who we are is juxtaposed with images of nature emphasizing the unbreakable bond between our body and our social existence.