If these aren’t the saddest sacks of human excretion you’ve ever seen, then I don’t want to know your life.

Kiki Smith’s ability to make the grossest-looking humans is uncanny. She claims that she uses the body because, "It is our primary vehicle for experiencing our lives...It’s something everyone shares.” But personally I’d rather not share anything with these two. They give the heebie-jeebies to anyone who comes too close. Made of beeswax and microcrystalline wax mounted onto metal stands, Betty and Al (completely made-up names for your reading convenience and because Paul Simon forever) are reminiscent of Adam and Eve post-expulsion from paradise. They hang naked and lifeless from their respective poles and look like they have that newborn baby goo all over them. Betty has milk dripping from her nipples down to her bajingo  and Al...well, Al has semen  dripping from his penis down his legs. It’s a really embarrassing situation for both of them. What if the children were to walk in? I mean really…won't somebody think of the children?!

Kiki Smith had a knack for working with the human body - “probing it, distorting it, fragmenting it, and making visible what is usually imperceptible or private,” which would explain the milk and semen. She really gets in touch with all of the things people love to repress like bodily functions...basically all of those things that you sit in the bathroom wondering whether or not to tell your doctor about. Smith loves that stuff so much that she trained as an Emergency Medical Technician for three months. As a result, she’s really good at making sculptures that emphatically remind you of the impermanence of human flesh. You have Betty and Al to thank for your upcoming existential crisis.