Join Christine Mehring, curator of David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art and professor at the University of Chicago and Dr. Yilmaz Dziewior, director of the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, for a talk on the work of Haegue Yang on Sunday 20 August 2023 at 11 am.
Christine Mehring will trace Haegue Yang’s artistic strategies to relativise the Western canon. Focusing on the notion of “quasi”, Mehring will discuss the artist’s engagement with the history of abstraction, representation, and conceptual art through her use of distinct domestic materials such as venetian blinds, commercial house paint, and spices.
Yilmaz Dziewior will trace and identify genealogies and threads on Warrior Believer Lover – Version Sonic. Dispersed in and populating the main hall at S.M.A.K., this is a new, not-yet-completed reenactment of Warrior Believer Lover, Yang’s previous installation of thirty-three Light Sculptures that premiered at the Kunsthaus Bregenz in 2011, upon the invitation of Yilmaz Dziewior.
