Haegue Yang: Changing From From To From

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The artist's work pictured stationary in an empty room with two models.

Haegue Yang, Sonic Intermediates – Three Differential Equations, 2020, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 2023 © the artist

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‘Historical figures inhabit my head like creatures in a mystic landscape. They are my tools to carve this landscape, finally becoming mountain peaks and rivers in my idiosyncratic.’

HAEGUE YANG

Haegue Yang’s immersive multimedia environments combine diverse materials and cultural traditions with references ranging from science and art history to political events. Using a range of industrial objects and intensive, craft-based techniques, her works make connections between divergent worlds of contemporary mass production, ancient tradition, and natural phenomena.

This exhibition features recent works by the Seoul and Berlin-based artist that explore interconnectivity and movement. These include Sonic Intermediates – Three Differential Equations (2020), a trio of sculptures that are activated regularly, filling the space with a ritualistic rattling of bells. The sculptures each allude to a pioneering modern artist – Barbara Hepworth, Naum Gabo, and Li Yuan-chia – with a line from Li’s poetry providing the exhibition’s title. The energies generated by movement also play out across Yang’s dramatic wallpaper print Non-Linear and Non-Periodic Dynamics (2020), with images of crashing water suggesting the continually changing and increasingly unpredictable conditions of weather. Visual evocations of the ‘butterfly effect’ are a reminder that tiny actions in one place can have a profound impact in another.

Curator: Russell Storer, Head Curator, International Art and Beatrice Thompson, Associate Curator, Asian and Pacific Art

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  • Three sculptural works embellished in bells sitting on a tiled floor against a lively wallpaper

    Installation view of Haegue Yang, Sonic Intermediates – Three Differential Equations, 2020, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 2023 © the artist

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  • A dynamic wallpaper covering the corner of an exhibition space

    Installation view of Haegue Yang, Non-Linear and Non-Periodic Dynamics, 2020, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 2023 © the artist

    The selection of local elements was made in consultation with Paul Girrawah House, Ngambri (Walgalu)/Wallaballooa (Ngunnawal)/Pajong (Gundungurra)/Wiradjuri (Erambie) peoples. Featuring Barbara Hepworth’s Two Figures, 1968, National Capital Authority © Bowness

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  • A dynamic wallpaper wrapping a corner in an exhibition space

    Installation view of Haegue Yang, Non-Linear and Non-Periodic Dynamics, 2020, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 2023 © the artist

    The selection of local elements was made in consultation with Paul Girrawah House, Ngambri (Walgalu)/Wallaballooa (Ngunnawal)/Pajong (Gundungurra)/Wiradjuri (Erambie) peoples. Featuring Barbara Hepworth’s Two Figures, 1968, National Capital Authority © Bowness

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  • Movable sculpture covered in small silver balls with black fur and multiple black handles

    Installation view of Haegue Yang, Sonic Intermediate – Parameters and Unknowns After Gabo, 2020, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 2023 © the artist

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  • Movable sculpture covered in small brown bells, with black fur and 2 handles

    Installation view of Haegue Yang, Sonic Intermediate – Parameters and Unknowns After Hepworth, 2020, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 2023 © the artist

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  • Movable sculpture covered in small red bells and black fur, with 3 black handles and a broom attached to the side

    Installation view of Haegue Yang, Sonic Intermediate – Parameters and Unknowns After Li, 2020, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 2023 © the artist

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  • Three low hanging pastel coloured woven tapestries pictured against a dynamic wallpaper

    Installation view of Haegue Yang, Triple Chalkies, 2015, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, gift of Dick Quan and John McGrath 2020. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program. © the artist

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  • Three pastel woven tapestries hanging from the ceiling, a group of three movable sculptures covered in bells, along a backdrop of a dynamic wallpaper

    Installation view of Haegue Yang's exhibition Changing From From to From, featuring Sonic Intermediates – Three Differential Equations, 2020, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 2023 © the artist, Triple Chalkies, 2015, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 2023 © the artist, Non-Linear and Non-Periodic Dynamics, 2020, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 2023 © the artist

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  • Haegue Yang pictured in front of her work, Angular Evergreen Climber Habitat (2022), aluminum venetian blinds, powder-coated aluminum hanging structure, powder-coated aluminum wall rails. Photograph © Pauline Assathiany. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris.

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  • The artist's work pictured stationary in an empty room.

    Haegue Yang, Sonic Intermediates – Three Differential Equations, 2020, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 2023 © the artist

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  • One component of the artist's work 'Sonic Intermediates' sitting stationary

    Haegue Yang, Sonic Intermediate – Parameters and Unknowns After Gabo, 2020, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 2023 © the artist

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  • One component of the artist's work 'Sonic Intermediates' sitting stationary

    Haegue Yang, Sonic Intermediate – Parameters and Unknowns After Hepworth, 2020, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 2023 © the artist

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  • One component of the artist's work 'Sonic Intermediates' sitting stationary

    Haegue Yang, Sonic Intermediate – Parameters and Unknowns After Li, 2020, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 2023 © the artist

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  • The artist's work pictured stationary in an empty room.

    Haegue Yang, Triple Chalkies, 2015, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, gift of Dick Quan and John McGrath 2020. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program. © the artist

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  • Close-up detail of the artist's work

    Haegue Yang, Triple Chalkies (detail), 2015, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, gift of Dick Quan and John McGrath 2020. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program. © the artist

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  • The artist's work pictured stationary in an empty room with two models.

    Haegue Yang, Sonic Intermediates – Three Differential Equations, 2020, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 2023 © the artist

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  • One component of the artist's work 'Sonic Intermediates' sitting stationary with model.

    Haegue Yang, Sonic Intermediate – Parameters and Unknowns After Gabo, 2020, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 2023 © the artist

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  • Full-scale image of the artist's work.

    Haegue Yang, Non-Linear and Non-Periodic Dynamics, 2020, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 2023 © the artist

    The selection of local elements was made in consultation with Paul Girrawah House, Ngambri (Walgalu)/Wallaballooa (Ngunnawal)/Pajong (Gundungurra)/Wiradjuri (Erambie) peoples. Featuring Barbara Hepworth’s Two Figures, 1968, National Capital Authority © Bowness

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  • Detail of artist's work.

    Haegue Yang, Non-Linear and Non-Periodic Dynamics (detail), 2020, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 2023 © the artist

    The selection of local elements was made in consultation with Paul Girrawah House, Ngambri (Walgalu)/Wallaballooa (Ngunnawal)/Pajong (Gundungurra)/Wiradjuri (Erambie) peoples. Featuring Barbara Hepworth’s Two Figures, 1968, National Capital Authority © Bowness

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  • Detail of artist's work.

    Haegue Yang, Non-Linear and Non-Periodic Dynamics (detail), 2020, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 2023 © the artist

    The selection of local elements was made in consultation with Paul Girrawah House, Ngambri (Walgalu)/Wallaballooa (Ngunnawal)/Pajong (Gundungurra)/Wiradjuri (Erambie) peoples. Featuring Barbara Hepworth’s Two Figures, 1968, National Capital Authority © Bowness

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  • Detail of artist's work.

    Haegue Yang, Non-Linear and Non-Periodic Dynamics (detail), 2020, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 2023 © the artist

    The selection of local elements was made in consultation with Paul Girrawah House, Ngambri (Walgalu)/Wallaballooa (Ngunnawal)/Pajong (Gundungurra)/Wiradjuri (Erambie) peoples. Featuring Barbara Hepworth’s Two Figures, 1968, National Capital Authority © Bowness

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Haegue Yang: Changing From From To From

Past Exhibition

27 May – 15 Oct 2023

Haegue Yang’s immersive multimedia environments explore interconnectivity and movement.

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Scientific Views: Professor Joan Leach on Haegue Yang

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Hear Professor Joan Leach discuss Haegue Yang’s solo exhibition at the National Gallery, Changing From From to From.

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