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span data-contrast="none">Presented as part of the Joan Carlisle-Irving Lec
ture Series
UBC Department of Art Hi
story\, Visual Art and Theory
12:00 p.m. PDT\, Wednesday\, October 2
7\, 2021
This virtual event is free
and open to the public.
Please register in advance:
“Yang has always g iven weight to exhibitions. In particular\, she regards those she generates for public institutions as a major driving force for the dissemination of her politics\, aesthetic\, and artwork.” —Lynne Cooke
Join us for a conversation with artist Haegue Yang on th
e occasion of her recent solo exhibition Haegue Yang:
Emergence at the Art Gallery of O
ntario. This focused survey comprised of eighty-four artworks\, including n
ew commissions and large-scale installations\, sculptures\, two-dimensional
works\, and video essays created over the past twenty-five years.
Emergence refers to a phenomenon in which a system or entity develops n ew qualities that are distinct from its individual parts. As the first Nort h American retrospective survey of Yang’s work to date\, the exhibition dra ws attention to the unique features of her practice\, while showcasing the contextual relationships between individual pieces and the circumstances of their creation.
During this talk\, Yang will discuss her varied practice with a virtual exhibition tour . She w ill also introduce the brand-new catalogue Haegue Yang: Emergence\, which c ontains essays that help contextualize Yang’s artistic career\, and generat e new understandings of her transformative contributions to the field of co ntemporary art.
Haegue Yan g was born in 1971 in Seoul\, South K orea. Currently\, she lives and works in Berlin and Seoul. Her works are kn own for their eloquent and seductive sculptural language of visual abstract ion out of her research on historical figures and events. Yang has particip ated in major international exhibitions including the 16th Istanbul Biennia l (2019)\; the 21st Biennale of Sydney (2018)\; La Biennale de Montréal (20 16)\; the 12th Sharjah Biennial (2015)\; the 9th Taipei Biennial (2014)\; D ocumenta XIII in Kassel (2012)\; and the 53rd Venice Biennale (2009).
Selected recent solo exhibitions have been held at Tate St Ives (2020)\, the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design\, Manila (2020)\, Art Gallery of Ontario\, Toronto (2020-21)\, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Ar t\, Korea (2020)\, Museum of Modern Art\, New York (2019)\; South London Ga llery (2019)\; MO.CO. Panacée\, Montpellier (2018)\, and Museum Ludwig\, Co logne (2018). Recipient of the 2018 Wolfgang Hahn Prize\, Yang’s work is in cluded in permanent collections such as the Art Gallery of Ontario\, Toront o\; Centre Pompidou\, Paris\; Museum of Modern Art\, New York\; M+\, Hong K ong\; Tate\, London\; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum\, New York\; Remai M odern\, Saskatoon\; The Bass Museum of Art\, Miami Beach\; Walker Art Center\, Minneapolis\; and the Art Gallery of Ontario\, Toronto.
Image courtesy o f the artist and kurimanzutto\, 2018. Photo by Abigail Enzaldo.
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