Haegue Yang’s work is well known for its eloquent language of visual abstraction combining direct sensory manipulation. Bringing together a variety of working methods--ranging from complex installations with industrially produced items, to hand-made sculptures using quasi-traditional crafts, like knitting, paper making, origami and macramé--Yang’s oeuvre has reached a level of rich complexity. Industrially manufactured items unfold in non-conventional arrangements as Yang translates her ongoing research on specific historical figures and their concrete domestic environments into a meticulous language of formalistic abstraction, narrating invisible politics through new methods of perception. Venetian blinds are a signature source for her inspiration, yet she is in constant search for new materials, methodologies and ways of spatial and plastic articulation. Recently, bells have been introduced as sonic and performative elements, illuminating one of her recent interests in the notion of movement in physical, social and metaphorical senses.

UCCA is proud to host the artist's first discussion in China. Titled “Uneven Arrivals,” the talk will introduce her practice and thoughts starting with Storage Piece (2004) and elaborating on her crucial development in 2006, with works including Sadong 30, Series of Vulnerable Arrangements – Version Utrecht and Blind Room. Yang’s talk will revolve equally around the question of identity/biography/narratives as well as narrating her agonizing process with materials, physicality of space and politics by depicting her major exhibitions and projects over the last few years.

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