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Haegue Yang’s Leap Year is a bold and diverse show mixing cultural references and folk traditions

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par Martin Lang, Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader in Fine Art , University of Lincoln

Leap Year, a new exhibition of work by South Korean artist Haegue Yang at the Southbank Centre’s Hayward Gallery, is a bold and diverse display of contemporary art, mixing materials and ideas in unexpected ways.

Those with a knowledge of art history over the last 70 years, like me, will appreciate how Yang plays with and combines various art traditions. For example, her use of LED, neon strip-lights, steel, text, projected video and even smell are deliberate references to materials commonly…

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