Leah Harper

A visitor can be forgiven for entering Yi Gallery’s current exhibition, “Mitosis “, and wondering whether they’ve been shrunken down into an aesthetically pleasing science lab. All that’s missing is the petri dish. This solo show of works by Leah Harper indicates the scope and breadth of the artist’s multi-disciplinary practice in dialogue with the lived environment, particularly with regards to marine life. The abstracted “creatures” that the artist presents assume migratory patterns, frozen in a form of arrested motion. By foregrounding the objects themselves, one is compelled to think...