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Haegue Yang

HAEGUE YANG

Sonic Rescue Ropes M+ 12 March 2024–6 January 2025 Hong Kong
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Commissioned by M+ in 2021–2022 and consisting of gleaming cords of bells, Haegue Yang’s Sonic Rescue Ropes stretch from ceilings of different heights all the way down to the floor. Their shiny visual effect and sublime, resonating sounds conjure shamanistic and pagan associations. Yang took inspiration from the traditional Korean folk tale Sister Sun and Brother Moon, which describes how two siblings became celestial bodies by climbing ropes from the heavens to escape danger on the ground. Yang’s multisensory abstract sculptures transform the soaring architecture of the museum into a mystical yet common civilisational space of aural storytelling and cosmic orientation.

M+ facilitators will occasionally activate the work.

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About the Artist

Haegue Yang is an artist known for her subtle use of mundane objects within sensory installations. Yang graduated with a BFA from Seoul National University, then attended Städelschule Frankfurt am Main, Germany, receiving an MFA in 1999. Today, she lives and works in Seoul and Berlin.

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West Kowloon Cultural District
38 Museum Drive
Kowloon
Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Opening Hours
Tuesday – Sunday, 10am – 6pm
Fridays, 10am – 10pm
Closed Mondays
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Hong Kong West Kowloon Cultural District, 38 Museum Drive
M contemporary art institution in Hong Kong
M+
West Kowloon Cultural District, 38 Museum Drive, Kowloon, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
+852 2200 0217
http://www.mplus.org.hk

Opening hours
Tuesday – Sunday, 10am – 6pm
Fridays, 10am – 10pm
Closed Mondays
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