Haegue Yang, The Intermediate – Serpent Creature, 2017. Courtesy of the artist.
Photo: Florian Kleinefenn.
O2’H2O is an exhibition as hybrid as our reality. Haegue Yang takes the knowledge, conventions and phenomena formed in various socio-cultural spheres and embodies them in « fantastic » visual language to transcendental space and time. Sonic Domesticus and The Intermediate, made with bells and artificial straw, and spoons from Mok Woo Workshop question the meaning of performativity in craftsmanship and allude to our society today. Her sculptures — beings that point at somewhere between living organisms and machines, or objects and humans — evoke the grotesque and familiarity of folklore.
On February 24, 2021 — 4-6 pm: YouTube MMCA live broadcast
Object-Oriented Angelogy is a panel conversation in conjunction with MMCA Hyundai Motor Series 2020: Haegue Yang - O2 & H2O, inviting Ute Meta Bauer and Hong-Jung Kim and moderated by Jihoi Lee (MMCA, Seoul). Ute Meta Bauer is the Founding Director of NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, and a Professor and Co-Chair of the Museum Studies and Curatorial Practices at the School of Art, Design and Media, NTU. Hong-Jung Kim is an Associate Professor at Department of Sociology, Seoul National University, Korea.
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