I believe that each of us is given one sentence at birth, and we spend the rest of our life trying to read that sentence and make sense of it.
—
Li Young Lee
Antifascist Medicine Machine by Elektra KB
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First Proof
Antifascist Medicine Machine, 2019, vending machine, acrylic, beads, nuts, and bolts, 20 x 10 inches.
Elektra KB is a Colombian artist living and working in Brooklyn. Her work is included in Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: Art 50 Years After Stonewall at the Brooklyn Museum (2019).
Originally published in
BOMB 148,
Summer 2019
Featuring interviews with Mary Weatherford, Nanfu Wang, Lee Quiñones, Venkatachalam Saravanan, Tyshawn Sorey, Ben Whishaw, Édouard Louis, Geovani Martins, Prageeta Sharma, and James Thomas Stevens.
