Haegue Yang: Flat Works surveys three decades of the artist’s two-dimensional explorations, including so-called Hardware Store Collages, Lacquer Paintings, Non-Foldings, Trustworthies (abstractions made from security envelopes and other materials), Wallpapers, Edibles, and most recently, Mesmerizing Mesh (cut and folded paper collages based on varied, international shamanistic practices).

Yang is predominantly known as a sculptor and installation artist. Nonetheless, her two-dimensional investigations have been consistent and essential to her creative development. The artist’s revelatory exploration of “flat” projects is still evolving—and this exhibition offers both landmark and recent materials that attest to this process. Yang hangs an excerpt from a room-scaled wallpaper on the vitrine surrounding The Arts Club of Chicago’s classic Mies van der Rohe staircase, while an elaborate wooden trellis is newly conceived to display collages from the Mesmerizing Mesh series with related archival research undertaken by the artist.

On the occasion, a concert will take place on October 10, 2024 at 6pm.

The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue with essay by curator and scholar Orianna Cacchione, Ph.D.

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