Haegue Yang, Yearning Melancholy Red (2008), in Shifting the Silence, exhibition view, SFMOMA, San Francisco, USA (2022). Photo: Katherine Du Tiel. © Haegue Yang.
Haegue Yang's installation Yearning Melancholy Red (2008) is part of the group exhibition Shifting the Silence at the SFMOMA.
Shifting the Silence takes his name from the artist Etel Adnan’s 2020 book on history and existence. It embraces experimentation, impermanence, and subjectivity — bold yet poetic characteristics that mark the art of our time.
Haegue Yang creates an environment in which the moving lights pan over, under, and through the blind structure, gently touching its surfaces and creating complex montages of shadows on the walls and floor, as light passes through its porous skin, before disappearing into the darkness of the room.
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