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Haegue Yang

09.23.11 - 10.16.11
Exhibition — La Chapelle des Carmélites

Haegue Yang
Site Cube, 2011 (installation view)
Courtesy Kunsthaus Bregenz, Haegue Yang
© Le Printemps de Septembre-à Toulouse

Haegue Yang

Site Cube, 2010 (installation view)

© Kunsthaus Bregenz, Haegue Yang

Photo: Markus Tretter

Born 1971 in Seoul (Korea), she lives in Germany.

 

In her installations Haegue Yang uses functional objects to elaborate a formal system based on a projection of the body, alternating between figuration and abstract geometry. By displacing them onto the terrain of sculpture or photography, Yang lets these dressed objects in between two states, between physical familiarity and the strange presence of ghostly beings.

 

She is taking over the Chapelle des Carmélites with a new series of installations: translucent cubes containing candles, like familiar altars haunted by a past life. This project is based on one of Korea’s founding myths, the “bear woman,” and is accompanied by a narrative freely inspired by this myth.