User:C.Barr27/Haegue Yang

Outline of proposed changes
+ Include more information of her exhibitions and works, and mention the significance of them

+ Include more information of her art style (how it's defined as conceptual but wants to redefine it)

+ Include Lingering Nous (2016) into commissions

+ Provide more information of Sadong 30 (2006)

+ Mention two other significant pieces in her Condensation exhibition

+ Mention her use of wallpapers in recent works

+ Provide an example of how she uses and manipulates lighting as an important piece to her installations

+ Mention the themes Yang includes and connect to her installation, which allow others to share and connect with themselves

Draft
With the statement “I believe that out of the alienation one can mobilize the unusual strength to sympathize with the others,” Yang seeks to embrace vulnerability, thus exploring themes that may include “individual and national identity, displacement, isolation, and community.” Yang also ensures an ambiguity to avoid “tying herself to one [identity] based on gender, race or geography.” Therefore…

With additional focus and exploration on her mural-like graphic wall pieces, juxtaposition and abstraction are incorporated for an enhanced dramatic, immersive scenery.

Overall, the materiality, references, and engagement in Yang’s art create a “communicative way of sharing life,” by allowing individuals within a space to “imagine events with others.”

Yang’s style in her works could be defined “between minimalism and conceptualism” that creates “a kind of modernist paradox.” However, there is a “sense of distance” her work carries in order to “defamiliarize her modernist inspirations.” Ideally, she promotes an “anachronistic lens…to view present conditions” and “revise our understanding of modernist abstraction.” Therefore

The use of venetian blinds in this work requires visitors to interact and connect with the work “physically…perceptually…[and] conceptually.”

Within one of her sculptural installations Mountains of Encounter (2008), moving spotlights are even utilized to imitate “the effect of searchlights” and alternate the “projection of shadows.”

Lingering Nous (2016)

Lingering Nous (2016) is a large-scale commissioned blind installation at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, France. Featuring aluminum venetian blinds and LED tubes, the hanging structure stretches three levels of the institution. As the word Nous refers to the human mind and “of understanding what is true or real”, the installation entitles “the potential to explore this capacity of the human mind further.”

Also included in the exhibition are Double and Halves—Events with Nameless Neighbors (2009), a video essay filmed in Seoul and Venice, and Series of Vulnerable Arrangements—Voice and Wind (2009), another large-scale installation with venetian blinds, ventilators, and scent emitters featured.

Sadong 30 (2006) was “one of Yang’s first big comeback pieces” at her grandmother’s old house. Yang emphasizes the house in such a rough and ruined state—“missing windows, peeling wallpaper and holes in the ceiling” with household objects featured in a mess—in order to leave “a universal pain…”