Haegue Yang: Storage Piece
28 April – 9 May 2004, open daily 11–6pm
Private View: 28 April will include a performance at 8pm

For Storage Piece, the final installment of Alterity Display, Haegue Yang’s back catalogue has been freed from storage in various parts of the world and shipped to London, taking over one side of the gallery.

On the other side of the gallery Celine Condorelli’s display device becomes a stage, a platform from which an actor gives voice to Yang’s scripted consideration about her piece. After the opening this monologue will be separated from its source as a recording and left to call out from Condorelli’s structure - now transformed into a cube.

Yang’s interest lies in revealing the condition and structure of space which is not always visible or visual. By employing a minimal shift in situation she juxtaposes the given with the fabricated. Often, her critical view on the institutional frame is mirrored by her own position so that what used to be hidden can be exposed without a definite evaluation.

Keeping works which remain leftover from previous shows still requires space and Storage Piece is Yang’s response to such a predicament. The absurdity of transporting all her pieces from long distances to remain in the gallery for such a short time, only 11 days, appealed greatly to Yang; as the solution to her storage needs was no solution at all. This lack of functional solution with regards to Yang’s problem also paralyses the conventional notion of the gallery space, now transformed beyond its usual context into a storage space. In the meantime, while usurping Yang’s proposal, the gallery lends the piece status as an artwork and reintroduces it into the cycle of commodity exchange.

The artist would like to thank: Zoltan Rae and Clare Cameron.

Heague Yang currently lives and works in London. Shows include Demirrored Zone at De Appel Foundation in Amsterdam, 2003, Manifesta 4 in Frankfurt, 2002 and Tirana Biennale 1 in Albania, 2002. Forthcoming solo shows at Hessisches Landesmuseum in Darmstadt and at Busan Biennale, Korea.



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