The Sea Wall exhibition facilitates a conversation between the work of Felix Gonzalez-Torres and emerging artist Haegue Yang. Using conceptual and aesthetic language, this dialogue will look to activate their respective practices afresh, drawing on the co-existence of the poetical and political aspects of their work, contextualising them in a contemporary socio-political, as well as artistic discourse.

Gonzalez-Torres' work Untitled (Water), 1995, a work he created shortly before his untimely death, will be presented throughout all the exhibition spaces, in entranceways as well as for creating transitional spaces. In dialogue with this will be a key selection of works by Yang from the last decade. The Sea Wall will present the affinities and contrasts in their respective practices, examining their approaches to such ideas as: intimacy and activism, private and public, inside and outside, as well as place and people, relevant for contemporary society in different cultural contexts. Of particular significance here will be the notion of 'community' - fragile, invisible or temporary community - an important subject in the work of these artists.

The exhibition has been titled after the book The Sea Wall by writer Marguerite Duras, which depicts her life as a child growing up in colonial-era French Indochina during the 1930s, after the death of her father. Her mother is conned into buying a plot of land to live from, but which is flooded by the sea every year, ruining the harvest. It is a tale of family struggle, with the mother treated with disdain by the state authorities for being a foreigner and a woman.

Accompanying the exhibition is a commissioned essay by artist Liam Gillick.