Haegue Yang in Monochrome Multitudes, exhibition view, Smart Museum of Art, the University of Chicago, Chicago, USA (2022). Photo: Shane Rothe. © Smart Museum of Art.
The work Sol LeWitt Upside Down onto Wall – Modular Wall Structure, Expanded 20 Times by Haegue Yang was commissioned for the exhibition Monochrome Multitudes (September 22, 2022–January 8, 2023) as part of the Smart Museum of Art’s ongoing Threshold series.
The group exhibition Monochrome Multitudes traces “the monochrome” as a fundamental if surprisingly expansive artistic practice. Revisiting classic modernist ideas about flatness, idealized form, and colors, the exhibition opens up this seemingly reductive art to reveal its global resonance and creative possibilities while working toward a more expansive narrative of 20th and 21st century art.
Within the exhibition, art is presented in monochromatic grouping—rooms of blue, white, yellow, gray, black, and red works respectively—alternating with thematic sections where single colors engage concerns with the body, urban space, sound, and other topics.
