But these are no more about a
cockatoo bird than is a Phillip Guston
painting about a potato or a Susan Rothenberg about a horse.
On
Cockatoo Island, for instance, the South Korean artist Lee Bul — an artist with a longstanding connection to sci - fi through robots, cyborgs and anime - influenced sculptures — presents Willing To Be Vulnerable (2016), a gigantic installation in the Turbine Hall of draped and
painted plastic sheets, an airship, a balloon, track lighting and ominous black figures that look like impaled and beheaded corpses.