BELONGING
AN AUDIOVISUAL PIECE FOR PREMIS FUNDACIÓ JOAN MIRÓ, INSPIRED FROM HAEGUE YANG, ONE OF THE NOMINATED ARTIST.
Haegue Yang seeks to engage in communication without language in a primordial and visual way. This vocabulary is complemented by visual abstractions and sensory experiences that include smell, sound, light, and texture. By combining industrial manufacturing with traditional tailoring, Yang explores the affective power of materials, destabilizing the distinction between the modern and the pre-modern. Her unique visual language expands across various mediums (from paper collage to plays and performance sculptures) and materials (Venetian blinds, coat racks, synthetic straw, bells, and graph paper) that Yang tears, glazes, weaves, illuminates, and hanging. His curiosity to explore different materials is accompanied by a philosophical, political and emotional reading of historical events and figures. This research is strengthened by underlying references to art history, literature and political history, through which Yang re-interprets some of his themes of interest: migration, post-colonial diasporas, forced exile and social mobility. As a result, his works link varied histories and geopolitical contexts in an attempt to understand and comment on our times. This translation—from the political and historical to the formal and abstract—demonstrates a conviction that historical narratives can be made comprehensible without being linguistically explanatory or didactic.
THE IDEA OF BELONGING TO SOMETHING SPECIFIC, A PLACE, FOR EXAMPLE, IS THE MAIN THEME OF THE PIECE. HOW THIS BELONGING CAN BE REPRESENTED THROUGH MOVEMENT IS OUR MAIN REASON.
JERIC ACUÑA, PERE TINOCO, VALERIA DE ROSA, CARLOS RECUERO AND GUILLEM PINEDA
MODEL: @ARTICHOKESGREEN
MUSIC: @HAKAISUMUSIC
MUSIC: @HAKAISUMUSIC
STILLS
thank you!!
