A tentacled Lee Bul #TBT, via Lehmann Maupin gallery. At the beginning of her career, the lauded Korean sculptor and installation artist used soft sculpture and performance to “radically challenge ideas about women’s bodies and roles in society, as well as conventional art forms of the time.” In this 1990 piece, a twelve-day guerrilla action, enigmatically titled Sorry for Suffering—You Think I’m a Puppy on a Picnic?, Bul donned an orange, multiple-limbed soft sculpture and wended her way through “airport gates, imperial palaces, shrines, and university campuses” in both Korea and Japan, courting controversy along the way.
