Exhibition run

15 October 2020 to 28 February 2021

Exhibition Opening

Online Event | General Public
Thursday, 15 October 2020 | 5PM*

Public Program

Online Event | General Public
Cross-continental Conversations in the Cone of Uncertainty
Thursday, 8 October 2020 | 8PM*

MCAD’s upcoming 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.

Haegue Yang: The Cone of Concern will be accompanied with a series of events, for which “Cross-continental Conversations in the Cone of Uncertainty“ is planned as a kick-off live zoom conversation with Jihoi Lee (MMCA, Seoul), Adelina Vlas (Art Gallery of Ontario Toronto), and Anne Barlow (Tate St Ives, Cornwall) moderated by Joselina Cruz (curator of the exhibition, MCAD) on 08 October 2020. To learn more, click here.

The exhibition will launch exclusively for viewing via MCAD’s online social channels on Thursday, 15 October 2020 at 5PM* with a series of supporting digital events.  Physical visits to the show will be through appointment booking in the website, beginning 16 October 2020.

To register for Haegue Yang: The Cone of Concern opening and/ or the panel conversation “Cross-continental Conversations in the Cone of Uncertainty”, click here.
For more information, click here.

MCAD, Dominga Street, Malate, Maynila, 1004 Kalakhang Maynila

Haegue Yang: The Cone of Concern is generously supported by the Goethe-Institut Philippinen, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Korea, Korea Arts Management Service, Fund for Korean Art Abroad, Hyundai Card, ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen), and produced in collaboration with S.C. Vizcarra.