Leap Year is the first major retrospective of Haegue Yang in the Netherlands. The exhibition presents the breadth of Yang’s diverse practice, encompassing installation, sculpture, video, text, and audio. Her works often evoke sensory associations through everyday materials—aluminium blinds, drying racks, and metal bells—used in unexpected ways to challenge conventional dichotomies such as abstraction versus figuration.

Yang draws attention to how movement, emotion, and affect operate within social, cultural, and political frameworks. By activating elements such as light, sound, moisture, heat, and scent, she reveals layers of memory and association. Theatrical lighting, for instance, slowly sweeps across Venetian blinds to produce shifting shadows, while drying racks become anthropomorphic figures in dynamic, acrobatic poses. Though often inspired by observations of societal issues, Yang’s work remains deeply personal, driven by a persistent desire for intimacy and human connection.
 

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