I love Kiki Smith because I enjoy how she works in a variety of media i.e. printmaking, wax, bronze, and clay. Also she creates work that deals with "forbidden" topics such as feces in her piece "Tale." In that work particularly she questions why once feces separates itself from the body, it becomes taboo. She creates a shocking image as a woman crawls across the floor, feces smeared on her bottom as a "tail" of waste trails behind her. She confronts the viewer with taboo subjects by creating blunt images.
I found an interview of Kiki Smith on Art21 under the title "Stories," which I feel embodies her work because she creates narratives within each piece.
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