The Cone of Concern

The Cone of Concern
October 15, 2020 – March 31, 2021
Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD), Manila, Phillipines

Installation view of The Cone of Concern, Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD), Manila, Phillipines, 2020
Photo: Maculangan/ Pioneer Studios

Installation view of The Cone of Concern , Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD), Manila, Phillipines, 2020
Video: Marvin Matias/ Chimera Visions, Studio Haegue Yang

Press Release

MCAD’s exhibition, Haegue Yang: The Cone of Concern is the first solo exhibition in the Philippines of celebrated Korean artist Haegue Yang (b. 1971, Seoul, South Korea), who lives and works between the cities of Seoul and Berlin since the mid-nineties. One of the most widely shown artists of her generation in the world today, Haegue is known for producing a form of conceptual language and an aesthetic vocabulary that is uniquely interwoven.

The title of the exhibition, The Cone of Concern, refers to a graphic tool for weather forecasting which specifically traces the path of an oncoming storm or tropical depression. This system built to predict the path of a typhoon presents how the human will attempts to confront the nature of natural phenomena. The artistic proposal in the midst of this concept is to draw out the metaphoric towards the notion of solidarity amongst those facing difficult circumstances, and with human imagination, understand our very own condition in the universe. Her interest in phenomena foregrounds the exhibition, placing a complex layer of objects—woven anthropomorphic sculptures, light sculptures, rotating sound bells, whirlwind-derived structures, textile canopies and sound elements—against a lenticular print backdrop of a digitally altered meteorological image.

Publication

Haegue Yang: The Cone of Concern, 2020