Contemporary artist Haegue Yang’s solo exhibition, Haegue Yang: Flat Works, is currently on view at The Arts Club of Chicago. Delving into the two-dimensional works that Yang has explored for over the past three decades, the exhibition identifies underlying connections and motivations across the artist’s oeuvre through a select number of key flat works, offering a scholarly perspective on this aspect of Yang’s career for the first time.

While Yang's flat series has often been presented as a complementary element alongside her installations featuring blinds or metal bells, this marks the first exhibition where her two-dimensional works take center stage. The exhibition includes fifty-eight works from seven different series: Hardware Store Collages, Lacquer Paintings, Non-Foldings, Trustworthies, Wallpapers, Spice Prints, Vegetable Prints and Mesmerizing Mesh, which is based on the research of paper props used in shamanistic practices internationally.

The artist has long investigated the notion of flatness as a process of ‘compressing’ three-dimensional world into two-dimensional images. To the artist, the ‘flatness’ refers to something that is folded and condensed but retains the potential to unfold again, embodying a substantial amount of tangible and intangible space within. This understanding of flatness forms the foundation of the diverse series presented in this exhibition, showcasing a range of works from minimalist and discrete to maximalist and engulfing.The exhibition continues until December 20.