Sallim

Haegue Yang · 2009

This is Sallim, by Haegue Yang, two thousand nine. The list runs: a steel frame on casters, aluminium venetian blinds, knitting yarn, an acrylic mirror, an four stand, light bulbs, an electric fan, a timer, garlic, dishes, a hot pad, and a scent emitter. Sallim is a Korean word for the running of a household. It is a domestic interior reassembled as a machine.

Medium Steel frame, perforated metal plate, caster, aluminum venetian blinds, knitting yarn, acrylic mirror, IV stand, light bulbs, cable, electric fan, timer, garlic, dishes, hot pad, and scent emitter · Dimensions 8' 2 1/2" x 13' 9 3/8" x 10' 2" (250 x 420 x 310 cm) · Credit Fund for the Twenty-First Century and gift of Agnes Gund, Glenn Fuhrman, and Jerry I. Speyer

Hanging beside it in Gallery 206: The Bricks, Silence

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: UCCA Dune Art Museum, Aranya, Hebei, China, UCCA Dune Art Museum, Aranya, Hebei, China, Reggio School, Madrid, Spain, iamb: Chapter 12, Excerpts and Exceptions, with Painting Rack, Empire, Equal