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Discover the first major retrospective exhibition of South Korean artist Haegue Yang (1971, Seoul) in the Netherlands. Considered one of the leading artists of her generation, Yang has developed a versatile oeuvre spanning over thirty years. Leap Year will showcase the artist’s wide variety of media, including installation, sculpture, video, text, and audio. Evoking sensorial associations with everyday objects, from aluminium blinds and drying racks to metal bells, her works dissociate well-established dichotomies like abstract versus figurative.

Yang draws our attention to how movement, sentiments, and emotions operate in various social, cultural, and political contexts by mobilising light, sound, moisture, heat, and scent to disclose memories and associations. Choreographed theatrical lights brush over venetian blinds and cast constant but slow-moving shadows, while drying racks are transformed into anthropomorphic creatures in...More expand_more

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Discover the first major retrospective exhibition of South Korean artist Haegue Yang (1971, Seoul) in the Netherlands. Considered one of the leading artists of her generation, Yang has developed a versatile oeuvre spanning over thirty years. Leap Year will showcase the artist’s wide variety of media, including installation, sculpture, video, text, and audio. Evoking sensorial associations with everyday objects, from aluminium blinds and drying racks to metal bells, her works dissociate well-established dichotomies like abstract versus figurative.

Yang draws our attention to how movement, sentiments, and emotions operate in various social, cultural, and political contexts by mobilising light, sound, moisture, heat, and scent to disclose memories and associations. Choreographed theatrical lights brush over venetian blinds and cast constant but slow-moving shadows, while drying racks are transformed into anthropomorphic creatures in...More expand_more

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Museumpark, Westzeedijk 341, 3015 AA Rotterdam, Netherlands
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