Notice of the first SOAS talk of the Autumn season:
Artist talk: Haegue Yang at SOAS as part of the SOAS / Sotheby’s Series
4 October 2018, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, SOAS
Register via Eventbrite
Organised by SOAS Centre of Korean Studies and Sotheby’s Institute of Art
Haegue Yang’s Sol LeWitt Upside Down – Open Modular Cubes (Small), Expanded 958 Times (2015) – installed in the QAG Watermall at APT8, 2015 (photo: LKL)
Haegue Yang (b. 1971, South Korea) lives and works in Berlin, Germany, and Seoul, South Korea. Yang’s practice spans a wide range of media, from paper collage to performative sculpture and large-scale multi-sensorial installation, often featuring everyday objects, in addition to labour-intensive woven sculptures. Articulated in her abstract visual vocabulary, her anthropomorphic sculptures often play with the notion of ‘the folk’ being a cultural idea, while also attempting to transcend it as being a mere tradition of specific cultures. Her multisensory environments suggest uncontrollable and fleeting connotations of time, place, figures, and experiences that connect us in this non-sharable field of perception.
Selected recent solo exhibitions were at La Triennale di Milano (2018); Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (2018); Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2018); Kunsthaus Graz (2017) Hamburger Kunsthalle (2016); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2016); Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (2015); Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul (2015); and Modern Art Oxford (2011).
