Sonic Droplets
2022-
Sonic Droplets in Gradation – Water Veil
2024
Powder-coated stainless steel bells, stainless steel bells, stainless steel chains, split rings, carabiners
Dimensions variable
Courtesy of the artist
Photo: Studio Haegue Yang
Sonic Droplets in Gradation – Germinating
2024
Powder-coated stainless steel bells, stainless steel bells, stainless steel chains, split rings, carabiners
314 x 206 x 4 cm; 314 x 264 x 4 cm
Courtesy of dépendance, Brussels
Installation view of Haegue Yang: Mesmerizing Mesh – Paper Leap and Sonic Germination, dépendance, Brussels, 2024
Photo: Alice Pallot
Sonic Droplets – Amber
2024
Powder-coated stainless steel bells, stainless steel bells, stainless steel chains, split rings
378 x 580 x 4 cm
Courtesy of University Children’s Hospital Zurich – Eleonoren Foundation
Photo: Studio Haegue Yang
Sonic Droplets – Cobalt
2023
Powder-coated stainless steel bells, stainless steel bells, stainless steel chains, carabiners, split rings
Dimensions variable
Courtesy of Kukje Gallery
Photo: Chunho An
Sonic Droplets – Opal
2023
Powder-coated stainless steel bells, stainless steel bells, stainless steel chains, carabiners, split rings
300 x 400 x 4 cm
Courtesy of Kukje Gallery
Photo: Chunho An
Sonic Droplets – Steel Buds
2022
Powder-coated aluminum hanging structure, stainless steel bells, stainless steel chains, carabiner, split rings
375 x 576 cm; 375 x 576 cm; 375 x 574.4 cm; 375 x 574.4 cm; 422 x 316 cm
Courtesy of Kukje Gallery
Commissioned by Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2022
Installation view of Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2022, Aspinwall House, Kerala, India, 2022
Photo: Kochi Biennale Foundation
Spanning a vast range of media—from paper collage to performative sculpture to room-scaled, multisensory installations—Haegue Yang’s work links disparate histories and traditions in a visual idiom all her own. Attempting to communicate with her viewers through nonverbal, abstract methods, the artist mobilises a variety of craft techniques and materials, extracting them from their familiar contexts to impart relevant socio-historical and contemporary significance.
Since 2013, metal bells have figured prominently in Yang’s sculptures. Her Sonic Sculptures are informed by diverse ritual uses of bells; from Korean shamanism to European pagan customs, their sound has served to intercede between the human and spirit realms. Yang’s inquiry delves into the resilient status of those folk traditions which, while often marginalised, have persisted over centuries, and this abiding interest is reflected in Yang’s Sonic Sculptures as well as in other categories of her works.
Commissioned for the fifth Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Sonic Droplets – Steel Buds (2022) consists of more than 100,000 stainless steel bells. Installed in the historic Aspinwall building, the five-part curtain divides the room into four distinct transitional sections, while incorporating two columns within its sonic field. Viewers may walk through the curtain, and their movements activate the bells, creating rattling sounds analogous to the aural natures of multiple ritualistic practices, both spiritual and secular.
Sonic Droplets – Water
2022
Powder-coated iron hanging structure, stainless steel bells, nano-coated stainless steel bells, stainless steel chains, carabiner, split rings
341 x 296 x 4 cm
Private collection, New York City
Installation view of Todos Juntos (all together), kurimanzutto Gallery, New York, 2022
Photo: Daniel Terna
Exhibition history
Mesmerizing Mesh – Paper Leap and Sonic Germination, dépendance, Brussels, Belgium, 2024
Continuous Reenactments, Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland, 2023
Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2022, Aspinwall House, Kerala, India, 2022
Todos Juntos (All Together), kurimanzutto, New York City, USA, 2022
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