Research Catalog

Title

• Haegue Yang : an opaque wind = هيجيو يانغ : رياح كمداء/ edited by Sylbee Kim [and three others] ; translation to Arabic by Njoud Alduhoori.
• Haegue Yang : an opaque wind = Hījiyū Yāngh : riyāḥ kamdāʼ / edited by Sylbee Kim [and three others] ; translation to Arabic by Njoud Alduhoori.

Author

Yang, Haegue, 1971-

Publication

[Sharjah] : Sharjah Art Foundation ; [Berlin] : Wiens Verlag, ©2016.

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Details

Additional Authors

• ظهوري: نجود
• Ẓuhūrī, Nujūd.
• Kim, Sylbee.
• Sharjah Art Foundation.

Description

33 pages, 77 unnumbered pages of plates, 31 pages : color illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

An Opaque Wind documents a site-specific installation of the same title commissioned by and exhibited at Sharjah Biennial 2015. An Opaque Wind (2015) took the intertwined geo-economic involvement of the Korean state-driven economy in the Gulf region since the 1970s as a starting point. It reflects upon the progress-driven heavy industrialization that has engaged many Korean workers (mostly male) to construct the urban and oil infrastructure that constitutes today?s ecology in both territories. Composed of seemingly unrelated common construction materials, such as rusting beams, used air conditioners, turbine vents, bricks, concrete blocks, and corrugated metal sheets, combined with other locally sourced traditional elements from the site, like areesh roof and mats, and coral stones, the installation oscillates between transparency and opacity, openness and impenetrability, past and present, suggesting a commonly shared past of the geo-economic trajectory of industrialization juxtaposed with layers of reconstruction of Sharjah?s early settlement as situated within the heritage village. What is striking is the use of industrial vents to visualize the immaterial element of the piece, namely wind. This element is also found in Sharjah?s traditional wind towers as natural cooling systems in buildings, and wind is also an invisible metaphor for a hidden tie between the history and regions that remain remote and exotic to each other.

Alternative Title

• Opaque wind
• هيجيو يانغ : رياح كمداء
• Hījiyū Yāngh : riyāḥ kamdāʼ

Subjects

• Installations (Art)
• Yang, Haegue, 1971-
• Yang, Haegue, 1971- > Exhibitions
• United Arab Emirates > Shāriqah
• Installations (Art) > United Arab Emirates > Shāriqah > Exhibitions
• Exhibition catalogs

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• "الماضي: الحاضر: الممكن" بينالي الشارقة 5 مارس 5 يونيو.
• "Al-Māḍī, al-ḥāḍir, al-mumkin" Bīnālī al-Shāriqah 5 Māris- 5 Yūniyū.
• On the occasion of the exhibition "The past, the present, the possible" held at Sharjah Biennial 12, March 5 - June 5, 2015.
• Book contains traces of sand between single pages.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• Parallel texts in English and Arabic in separate paginations, bound back to back.

Call Number

JQE 17-1235

ISBN

• 9783943888089
• 3943888088
• 9789948446736
• 9948446739

LCCN

9783943888089

OCLC

965201279

Author

Yang, Haegue, 1971-

Title

Haegue Yang : an opaque wind = Hījiyū Yāngh : riyāḥ kamdāʼ / edited by Sylbee Kim [and three others] ; translation to Arabic by Njoud Alduhoori.

Alternate Script for Title

Haegue Yang : an opaque wind = هيجيو يانغ : رياح كمداء/ edited by Sylbee Kim [and three others] ; translation to Arabic by Njoud Alduhoori.

Imprint

[Sharjah] : Sharjah Art Foundation ; [Berlin] : Wiens Verlag, ©2016.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Alternate Script for Note

"الماضي: الحاضر: الممكن" بينالي الشارقة 5 مارس 5 يونيو.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Language

Parallel texts in English and Arabic in separate paginations, bound back to back.

Added Author

Ẓuhūrī, Nujūd.

Alternate Script for Added Author

ظهوري: نجود, translator.

Added Author

Kim, Sylbee.

Sharjah Art Foundation.

Other Standard Identifier

9783943888089

Research Call Number

JQE 17-1235