Visited the Hague Yang exhibition in Oxford last week and loved it! Although it did not have the same emotional connections as the Walsall exhibition, it did open my eyes up to new concepts and themes.
Yang has investigated how to change domestic appliances by creating sculptures of domestic appliances covered in kitted "cosies" and researches how this changes their use. For example Hague Yang has looked at drying racks for clothes, and food cans and knitted what she calls "cosies" for them which change how they can be used.
Within the exhibition there is also a new piece which has been created for the gallery made from vanitian blinds of assorted colours, mainly pastel, ice cream shades of pink, blue and green. These have been displayed by hanging from the celing making you as a viewer look up. The piece plays with light and with movement and is a piece which can be altered by the viewer by changing the aspect of the blinds.
This is a wonderful exhibition to visit by an artist who is mainly contained to Berlin and Seoul.
http://www.modernartoxford.org.uk/whats-on/haegue-yang/about/
The work of Hague Yang, I feel can also be related to the work of many American based artists who have formed the "yarn bombing" movement.
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