Held at Taichung Green Museumbrary in Taiwan
Through December 2027
Contemporary artist Hyekyoo Yang will unveil her new blind installation, "Fluid Dedication - Triple Harmony Tree Shade" (2025), as her first large-scale commission in Taiwan. The work will be exhibited at the Taichung Art Museum, located within the newly opened Taichung Green Museumbrary.
The Taichung Green Museumbrary, which officially opened on December 13, 2025, is one of Taiwan's most anticipated cultural infrastructure projects of the year. Situated in Taichung, the country's second-largest city, this complex cultural space was established under the concept of a "Museumbrary," combining the Taichung Art Museum and the Taichung Public Library. It aims to be an inclusive space where exhibitions, reading, and cultural activities coexist, presenting a new model for art institutions.
Hyekyoo Yang was selected as one of the inaugural commissioned artists, alongside Taiwanese artist Michael Lin, to commemorate the opening. Her new work, "Fluid Dedication," is the largest blind installation in her career to date, designed to fit the 27-meter-high museum lobby and its surrounding spiral ramp. Over the past 30 years, Yang has explored a variety of media, including immersive installations, sculpture, hanji collage, and digital graphic wallpaper, and for more than 20 years, she has developed Venetian blinds as a core sculptural language.
In Yang's work, blinds-everyday objects-are suspended to create a sense of spatial depth, transforming into performative sculptures that reveal a fluid state between opacity and transparency. Through this, she explores how materials mediate perception, emotion, and collective experience. This particular piece draws on field research in Taichung and begins with the cultural symbolism of old trees revered by the local community. Inspired by the traditions of ancient tree worship found throughout East and South Asia-including Korea's Dangsan tree, Japan's Shinboku, India's Bodhi tree, and Taiwan's Dashugong-the work pays homage to universal spiritual beliefs in nature.
Unlike trees rooted in the ground, "Fluid Dedication" is realized as a "sacred tree of the sky," suspended from the ceiling. The massive tree form appears to float in the center of the museum, ascending skyward along the spiral ramp. The installation is composed of low-saturation blinds in deep natural hues such as dark green, red, ochre, and brown. At night, flexible LED lighting and laser beams reminiscent of fireflies infuse the work with vitality. The interplay of light, which changes between day and night, further accentuates the mystical quality of the floating sacred tree.
Lee Shinlai, Director of the new Taichung Art Museum, commented, "Hyekyoo Yang is an artist who brilliantly demonstrates the relationship between artwork and architectural space. 'Fluid Dedication' will interact with the museum's natural and cultural values, offering visitors a unique sensory experience." The exhibition will run through December 2027.
Hyekyoo Yang was born in Seoul in 1971 and has worked between Berlin and Seoul since the mid-1990s. Since 2017, she has served as a professor at her alma mater, the St?delschule at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Frankfurt, and will assume the chairmanship of Berlin’s Kunst-Werke in 2025. Her works are held in major institutions and private collections worldwide, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Tate Modern in London, and the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo.
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