UCCA
Ullens Center for Contemporary Art
Haegue Yang
Come Shower or Shine, It Is Equally Blissful
Opening: 29. Oct 2015 | 5 pm
October 30, 2015–January 3, 2016
798 Art District No. 4 Jiuxianqiao Road,
Chaoyang District 100015 Beijing China
http://ucca.org.cn/en/exhibition/haegue-yang-2/
Haegue Yang, completed with OK-RM, Eclectic Totemic, 2013.
Digital color print, dimensions variable. Courtesy the artists.
From 30 October 2015 to 3 January 2016, the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) is pleased to host the first solo exhibition in China of Haegue Yang. “Haegue Yang: Come Shower or Shine, It Is Equally Blissful” includes the artist’s major works from 1994 to the present with newly commissioned sculptural installations. Through the Lobby, Nave, and Central Gallery, viewers navigate the plurality of Yang’s unique visual language, a landscape of material hybridity—spices, Venetian blinds, clothing racks, synthetic straw, Choco Pies, bells, graph paper—torn, lacquered, woven, lit, and hung. Here, Yang attempts to stage diverse narratives of nameless subjectivities in a syncretic mode of abstraction and figuration that does not seek a balance between the two.