Haegue Yang | Interactive Sculptures with Everyday Materials Spark Sensory Enchantment

The two Exhibitionistas friends, contemporary art curator Joana P. R. Neves and art lover Emily Harding examine the unexpectedly sensorial exhibition “Leap Year” by South Korean artist Haegue Yang. How did she accomplish such enchanting aesthetics–and huge sculptural objects–with simple, domestic materials?! Why are they so strange and yet familiar, almost nostalgic? Where do the Korean elements stop and the European interiors begin (Yang lives in Berlin)?

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Yang ‘s exhibition took over the whole space of the Hayward Gallery, and yet her sculptures don’t appear grandiose or even static. So… Did this sensory fest lead one of our hosts to touch a sculpture inadvertently? Maybe. Did the sculptures with domestic elements, albeit repetitive, provide deep feelings? Certainly. But was it the story about Yang’s mum not understanding German bathrooms that touched one of the Exhibitionistas? Perhaps. 

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For more information: https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/haegue-yang-leap-year/

Follow Haegue Yang on Instagram: @yanghaegue

Music by Sarturn. 

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Created & Hosted by Dr. Joana P. R. Neves, art curator and writer with over 20 years of experience in the contemporary art field. Artistic director of Drawing Now Paris since 2018, she has worked across the industry, from the art market to education. She co-launched the art residency and project space Worldingin 2020. Exhibitionistas’ first year offered exhibition discussions with guest co-host Emily Harding; organically, it grew into a more experimental show exploring art topics, stories and interviews complemented by Joana’s publication Art Thinkosaurus on Substack. She champions ‘Art Wonderment’s’ embrace of complexity against the lure of ready-made opinions. A polyglot, she grew up in Lisbon, studied and lived in Paris, to finally settle in London with her artist husband, four children and two cats. 

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