Artificial manipulations of intangible sensual experiences such as heat, odor and light further heighten the elusive spatial evanescence of her works. For her 2009 sculpture Sallim, Yang created a full-scale model of her kitchen in Berlin, free from many of the things that are attributes of the ordinary concept of work in terms of social effectiveness/productivity, as she describes it. What remains is more like the bare outline of a kitchen, with its structural and indeed conceptual solidity rendered provisional and strangely dubious. Haegue Yang: Arrivals presents a catalogue raisonné of the artist''s works to date, revealing her to be one of today''s most intriguing young artists.
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