The Art of Resistance: Defending Academic Freedom since 1933

Haegue Yang?South Korean Nonprofit – Trustworthy #179 2012 Signed (on rear) Framed Various envelope security patterns 34 x 49 cm Guide Price £5,000 Haegue was born in 1971 in Seoul, South Korea. She currently lives and works in Berlin and Seoul. Yang has a long-standing interest in the economy of labour, fabrication, movement, handicraft and abstraction. Bringing together a variety of working methods, her works range from complex installations using high-end fabrication with industrially produced and commercially available products, to hand-made sculptures and objects using traditional handicraft techniques such as knitting, papermaking, origami and macramé. She represented Korea at the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009 and, amongst her international exhibitions, participated in dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel, Germany, in 2012. Solo exhibitions in 2013 include Family of Equivocations, Aubette 1928 at the Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, France; Journal of Bouba/ kiki, Glasgow Sculpture Studios, Glasgow, Scotland; Journal of Echomimetic Motions, Bergen Kunsthall, Norway; Honesty Printed on Modesty, Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore; and Anachronistic Layers of Dispersion, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, USA. “ The primary material for the series of paper collages titled Trustworthies (ongoing since 2010) is collected used envelopes. I focus on the rarely-noticed patterns found within envelopes to prevent their content from being seen before they are received by the addressee. Considering the ecology of this industrially produced item, including the distance it travels, its function of protecting the information enclosed, its ephemeral life, and also its great variety of security patterns, I arrange mostly geometric and abstract compositions. Only several pieces of the Trustworthies series employ words. For this occasion, I have donated a piece that contains the word NONPROFIT. haegue yang 42 The Art of Resistance? Defending Academic Freedom ” Lot 12

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