Double Soul
Solo show at SMK Copenhagen, Denmark
March 5 – July 31, 2022
Opening Friday, March 4, 5–8 pm
Haegue Yang’s exhibition Double Soul constitutes the artist’s first solo presentation in Denmark and comprises more than fifty works, including formative, seminal and newly created works. Covering her prolific artistic production from 1994 until today, Double Soul also spans a range of media: installation, sculpture, text and sound.
The exhibition title Double Soul refers to Yang’s preoccupation with doubling and pairing seemingly disparate dualities. In her exploration of the connections between apparent contradictions such as traditional and modern culture, industry and craft, fact and fiction, as well as the quotidian and the exceptional.
"I’m interested in the idea of the double because it’s about everything that’s not considered as the origin with its associations of wholeness. In fact, so many things lie behind the word double; all that is left over and all that overlaps. The double is also what we aspire to become, but which is left in the shadows," says Yang.