Artist talk: Haegue Yang will deliver a lecture at SOAS, University of London as part of the SOAS Sotheby's Institute of Art Series.
Thu 4 October 2018
19:00 – 21:00 BST
Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre
SOAS, University of London, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square
London
WC1H 0XG
United Kingdom
Event organised by SOAS Centre of African Studies, the Centre for Korean studies and Sotheby's Institute of Art.
Followed by drink reception.
Artist talk: Haegue Yang will deliver a lecture at SOAS, University of London as part of the SOAS Sotheby's Institute of Art Series.
About the Artist:
Haegue Yang (b. 1971, South Korea) lives and works in Berlin, Germany and Seoul, South Korea. Yang’s practice spans a wide range of media, from paper collage to performative sculpture and large-scale multi-sensorial installation, often featuring everyday objects, in addition to labour-intensive woven sculptures. Articulated in her abstract visual vocabulary, her anthropomorphic sculptures often play with the notion of ‘the folk’ being a cultural idea, while also attempting to transcend it as being a mere tradition of specific cultures. Her multisensory environments suggest uncontrollable and fleeting connotations of time, place, figures, and experiences that connect us in this non-sharable field of perception.
Selected recent solo exhibitions were at La Triennale di Milano (2018); Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (2018); Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2018); Kunsthaus Graz (2017) Hamburger Kunsthalle (2016); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2016); Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (2015); Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul (2015); and Modern Art Oxford (2011).
Event organised by SOAS Centre of African Studies, the Centre for Korean studies and Sotheby's Institute of Art.
Followed by drink reception.