Sonic Figures
2013-

 

Sonic Intermediates – Double Soul
2021

Powder-coated steel frame, mesh and handles, ball bearings, casters, stainless steel bells, PVD-coated stainless steel bells, powder-coated stainless steel bells, black brass-plated bells, split rings, plastic twine, artificial plants, turbine vents

Installation view of Haegue Yang: Double Soul, SMK – Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2022
Photo: Jan Søndergaard and Anders Sune Berg

 

Sonic Intermediate – Six-Fingered Wayfarer after Arke
2021

Powder-coated steel frame, mesh and handles, ball bearings, casters, stainless steel bells, PVD-coated stainless steel bells, powder-coated stainless steel bells, black brass-plated bells, split rings, plastic twine, artificial plants, turbine vents

210 x 100 x 104 cm

Courtesy of SMK, National Gallery of Denmark, gift from the New Carlsberg Foundation

Photo: Studio Haegue Yang

 

Sonic Intermediate – Tripodal Shapeshifter after Ferlov Mancoba
2021

Powder-coated steel frame, mesh and handles, ball bearings, casters, stainless steel bells, PVD-coated stainless steel bells, powder-coated stainless steel bells, black brass-plated bells, split rings, plastic twine, artificial plants, turbine vents

191 x 147 x 212 cm

Courtesy of SMK, National Gallery of Denmark, gift from the New Carlsberg Foundation

Photo: Studio Haegue Yang

 

Sonic Intermediates – Three Differential Equations
2020

Courtesy of Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin

Photo: Nick Ash

 

Sonic Intermediate – Parameters and Unknowns After Li
2020

Powder-coated steel frame, powder-coated mesh, powder-coated handles, casters, red brass plated bells, metal rings, plastic twine, broom

215 x 172 x 172 cm

Courtesy of Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin

Photo: Nick Ash

 

Sonic Intermediate – Parameters and Unknowns After Gabo
2020

Powder-coated steel frame, powder-coated mesh, powder-coated handles, casters, turbine vent, nickel plated bells, metal rings, plastic twine, zip ties

220 x 145 x 145 cm

Courtesy of Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin

Photo: Nick Ash

 

Sonic Intermediate – Parameters and Unknowns After Hepworth
2020

Powder-coated steel frame, powder-coated mesh, powder-coated handles, casters, copper plated bells, metal rings, plastic twine

216 x 125 x 125 cm

Courtesy of Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin

Photo: Nick Ash

 

Installation view of Strange AttractorsTate St Ives, St Ives, UK, 2020
Photo: Steve Tanner

 

Sonic Intermediates – Triad Walker Trinity
2020

Powder-coated steel frames, mesh, and handles, ball bearings, casters, brass, nickel, and black brass plated bells, metal rings, plastic twine, turbine vents, artificial plants, pinecones, multilayer foam

Installation dimensions variable

Collection Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. T. B. Walker Acquisition Fund, 2020

 

Floor element
2020

Self-adhesive holographic, black, blue and transparent vinyl film, self-adhesive over laminate

495 x 493 cm

Courtesy of the artist

Photo: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

 

Sonic Intermediate – Tripodal Venting Walker
2020

Powder-coated steel frame, powder-coated mesh, powder-coated handles, casters, brass plated bells, black brass plated bells, metal rings, plastic twine, turbine vents, artificial plants, pinecones

212 x 121 x 120 cm

Collection Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. T. B. Walker Acquisition Fund, 2020

Photo: Nick Ash

 

Sonic Intermediate – Spinning Mask on Parasol Walker
2020

Powder-coated steel frame, powder-coated mesh, powder-coated handles, ball bearing, casters, nickel plated bells, brass plated bells, black brass plated bells, metal rings

193 x 120 x 111 cm

Collection Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. T. B. Walker Acquisition Fund, 2020

Photo: Nick Ash

 

Sonic Intermediate – Botanical Bi-Headed Creeping Walker
2020

Powder-coated steel frame, powder-coated mesh, powder-coated handles, ball bearings, casters, brass plated bells, black brass plated bells, metal rings, plastic twine, artificial plants, multilayer foam

150 x 135 x 182 cm

Collection Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. T. B. Walker Acquisition Fund, 2020

Photo: Nick Ash

 

Sonic Rampant Obscure Turbine Vents, Double Decker – Bushy Feet
2018

Powder-coated steel stand, powder-coated metal grid, casters, brass plated bells, metal rings, powder-coated turbine vents, artificial plants

167 x 118 x 118 cm

Courtesy of kurimanzutto, Mexico City

Photo: Studio Haegue Yang

 

Sonic Figure – Venting Gourd
2016

Steel stand, metal grid, powder coating, casters, brass plated bells, metal rings, turbine vents, seedpod, edging strip

189 x 107 x 93 cm

Courtesy of Greene Naftali, New York
Video: Studio Haegue Yang

 

Sonic Figure – Solemn Abstraction on Tripus
2015

Steel stand, metal grid, powder coating, casters, brass plated bells, metal rings

195 x 110 x 110 cm

Mei-Ching Tsang, Taiwan
Photo: Sebastiano Pellion di Persano

 

Sonic Figure – Ancient Revenant
2015

Steel stand, metal grid, powder coating, casters, copper plated bells, nickel plated bells, metal rings

222 x 113 x 106 cm

K11 Collection
Video: Studio Haegue Yang

 

Sonic Figure – Shrugging Mohawk in Jeans-Armor
2013

Steel stand, metal grid, powder coating, casters, nickel plated bells, brass plated bells, metal rings

200 x 115 x 125 cm
Courtesy of Kukje Gallery, Seoul

Photo: Sebastiano Pellion di Persano

 

Sonic Figure – Fine No-arm
2013

Steel stand, metal grid, powder coating, brass plated bells, metal rings, steel wire

189 x 100 x 100 cm

Courtesy of the artist

Installation view of Journal of Echomimetic Motions,Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway, 2013
Photo: Thor Brødreskift 



Sonic Figure – Vigorous Stretcher
2013

Steel stand, metal grid, powder coating, casters, brass plated bells, metal rings

215 x 130 x 160 cm

Courtesy of the artist

Installation view of Journal of Echomimetic Motions,Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway, 2013
Photo: Thor Brødreskift 



Sonic Figure – Posing Coquette
2013

Steel stand, metal grid, powder coating, casters, brass plated bells, metal rings

210 x 130 x 110 cm

Courtesy of the artist

Installation view of Journal of Echomimetic Motions,Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway, 2013
Photo: Thor Brødreskift 



Sonic Figure – Mesmerizing Pirouette
2013

Steel stand, metal grid, powder coating, brass plated bells, metal rings, steel wire

175 x 100 x 100 cm

Courtesy of the artist

Installation view of Journal of Echomimetic Motions,Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway, 2013
Photo: Thor Brødreskift 



Sonic Figure – Flat Walker
2013

Steel stand, metal grid, powder coating, casters, brass plated bells, metal rings

200 x 120 x 110 cm

Courtesy of the artist

Installation view of Journal of Echomimetic Motions,Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway, 2013
Photo: Thor Brødreskift 


Installation view of Follies, manifold: Gabriel Lester - Haegue Yang, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany, 2014
Video: Studio Haegue Yang


Boxing Ballet, 2013

Installation view of Journal of Echomimetic Motions,Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway, 2013
Photo: Thor Brødreskift 

 


Exhibition history

Double Soul, SMK – Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2022

Strange Attractors, Tate St Ives, St Ives, UK, 2020

Chronotopic Traverses, La Panacée - MoCo, Montpellier, France, 2018

Quasi-Pagan Minimal, Greene Naftali, New York, USA, 2016

Shooting the Elephant 象 Thinking the Elephant, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea, 2015

Follies, Manifold: Gabriel Lester – Haegue Yang, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany, 2014

Journal of Echomimetic Motions, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway, 2013



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