Korean artist, Haegue Yang, who is based between Berlin and Seoul, has displayed ten sculptures called The Intermediates throughout two floors of Aïshti by the Sea. Running until mid-February, these anthropomorphic figures are made with woven artificial straw, which celebrates a traditional Korean handcraft technique and address the particularity and universality of cultures. By using artificial straw, Haegue Yang appropriates the idea of origin and tradition.
The installation is enhanced by a background soundtrack: Le Sacre du Printemps by Igor Stravinsky. Haegue Yang's sculptures could be seen as a sculptural equivalent to the anticlassicism of Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps, which represents a sacred pagan ritual.
The "Quasi - Pagan Seasonal Shift" is produced in collaboration with Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris.
Aïshti by the Sea
Antelias, Lebanon
T. 04 717 716
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