Exhibition view of TOMORROW at ArtSonje Center, Seoul, Korea
Curated by Kim Sunjung, David Ross, and Dan Cameron
October 6 – December 2, 2007
Photos: Choi Jinuk and Samuso
Courtesy: Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin

Interested in the invisible power relationships of society and everyday life, Yang quietly and contemplatively reflected on notions of holiday and labor in
Holiday for Tomorrow. The installation was composed of four elements: a set of multicolored venetian blinds made up of samples domestically available
in Korea, a series of wood screens with two different patterns having a moiré effect, a shell sculpture made from shells collected from restaurants that takes
the form of a philosopher’s stone, and a video essay entitled Holiday Story, in which the artist walked the streets of Seoul during Chuseok (Korean
thanksgiving holiday), recording the “resting phase” of the city. In the video a female narrator speaks about labor, love, space, and notions of holiday as
a socially agreed-upon, legitimized form of rest. Yang’s thoughts on the role of art and her acknowledgment that our idealized expectations of holidays
are often disappointed reflect her mental struggles over the labor of art making as well as ideas about the artist as an existential being. The blinds and
screens served as partitions that enforce a metaphorical “pause” and propose another form of “engagement.”