Haegue Yang. Lost Lands and Sunken Fields

Over the past three decades, Haegue Yang (born 1971, Seoul, South Korea) has developed a prolific and hybrid body of work that folds quotidian objects and folk traditions into the canon of modern and contemporary sculpture-making. Informed by in-depth exploration into vernacular techniques and related customs and rituals, along with her continual movement through disparate cultures, Yang’s work is both homage to and critique of the modernist project toward singular Western domination. Lost Lands and Sunken Fields documents Yang’s 2025 solo exhibition at the Nasher Sculpture Center, which occupied two levels of the museum’s galleries and gardens and debuted two new bodies of work that represent a significant turn in the artist’s sculptural production.