The exhibition at CAM marks Yang’s first solo museum presentation with a comprehensive selection of works in the midwest since 2009. Yang has been commissioned by CAM to produce a new piece for this exhibition called Mound Vehicles, which interacts with the Mississippi River landscape and the area's precolonial past while also responding to the Museum's architecture. A selection of sculptures from Yang's The Intermediates and Airborne Paper Creatures series complete this presentation.
Haegue Yang is known for her staged performances, paper collages, and room-scale installations as well as performative sculptures. Yang recasts commonplace items and materials, such as garment racks, ventilators, Venetian blinds, and smell emitters, from their everyday functions to create multimodal experiences. Yang addresses the fields of art history, literature, and political history while addressing issues of migration, postcolonial diaspora, forced exile, and social mobility through the primal and visual means of fragrance, sound, light, and tactility.
Misa Jeffereis, Associate Curator, organizes Haegue Yang: Quasi-Heartland for the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, with assistance from Grace Early, Exhibitions Assistant.