Haegue Yang rearranges everyday objects, such as blinds, electrical fans, lights and racks, into fragile sculptural arrangements. Balancing poetics and politics, her installations reflect a sense of precarity, particularly in relation to the subjects of migration, displacement, social class, labour and gender inequality — all factors in the processes of minoritisation.

The work Swedish Villa, made of yellow and blue Venetian blinds, references the Swedish flag. The arrangement is neither open nor closed, alluding simultaneously to both inside and outside, to the private and the public. The use of blinds in many of Yang’s installations references what the artist describes as ‘communities of absence’ — those that sit on the periphery, hidden from mainstream society. The title Swedish Villa also tells us something about the banal aspirations perpetuated by national cultures. The work is presented at Göteborgs konsthall.