The Cone of Concern, Haegue Yang, 2024

Haegue Yang: The Cone of Concern documents the Korean artist’s solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design in Manila. Known for her unique interweaving of conceptual language and aesthetic vocabulary, Yang, who lives and works in Berlin and Seoul, is one of the most widely exhibited artists of today as well as a professor at the renowned Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main.

The Cone of Concern, which takes its name from a graphical tool used in weather forecasting, which traces the path of an oncoming storm, represents humanity’s attempt to confront natural phenomena. Yang explores this concept as a way for the human imagination to understand our own condition in the universe, and as a metaphorical notion of solidarity among those facing difficult circumstances. The publication revisits her complex layering of objects—woven anthropomorphic sculptures, light sculptures, rotating sound bells, whirlwind-derived structures, textile canopies, and sound elements—against a lenticular print backdrop of a digitally altered meteorological image.