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Huang Po-Chih's free show in our HENI Project Space uses the personal narratives of workers to investigate globalised trade, with a focus on the textile industry in East Asia.

🗞️ Read Elephant Magazine's conversation with the Taiwanese artist: https://t.co/r7XRTJg9xp

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10 London art exhibitions that you don't want to miss by @Livingetc!

Take a look at who's at number 2 👀
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'Yang’s work suggests that art, too, has the power to bridge divides and foster empathy, breaking down barriers between cultures' 💛

Read The Conversation UK's piece on Haegue Yang's 'bold and diverse' show: https://t.co/Adxq1JxvBo

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It's Go to an Art Museum Day! 🎨🏛️ Have you planned your trip to one yet?

Thanks to everyone for these beautiful snaps, make sure you tag us in yours! 📸 Credits on our IG

#GoToAnArtMuseumDay #LondonGallery #ArtGallery #Exhibition #ThingsToDoInLondon

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Get to know the South Korean artists that are making waves across London right now! 🇰🇷

@EnglishChosun highlights our exhibition Haegue Yang: Leap Year as part of an exciting round-up of major museums and galleries showing South Korean artists 👇 https://t.co/rdIjYsyIe6

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Have you discovered the multi-sensory world of Haegue Yang?

Get to know the facts about the artist and her show before you join us ➡️ https://t.co/03KyTBcehq

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'Thought-provoking and mesmerising' are just two words that Southwark News have used to describe Haegue Yang: Leap Year ✨

🗞️ Read their full review of our spellbinding exhibition: https://t.co/I2wJSRjtuf

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This is your sign to plan a gallery trip this weekend 📸💙 We've been loving seeing your exhibition shots at Haegue Yang: Leap Year

Make sure to tag us in your pictures at the Hayward Gallery - we love to see and share them! Image credits on our Instagram page.

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FIRST LOOK 👀✨ Haegue Yang: Leap Year opens today!

Discover a world of inventive, immersive and multisensory installations and sculptures that weave connections between disparate histories, cultures and traditions.

#ArtGallery #LondonExhibition #ThingsToDoInLondon

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Look around your home, how could you transform it into a work of art? 👀💡 5, Rue Saint-Benoît consists of eight sculptures made of aluminium Venetian blinds, light bulbs and cabling, built to represent the artist’s own apartment

📅 Haegue Yang: Leap Year opens Wed 9 Oct

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When everyday objects become art 🔌 Series of Vulnerable Arrangements – Version Utrecht (2006) by Haegue Yang #WorkOfTheWeek

📅 Haegue Yang: Leap Year opens 9 Oct 2024 – 5 Jan 2025

#ConceptualArt #HaegueYang #LondonExhibition

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Every Tongue Shall Confess depicts Elizabeth II with Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 - 1974

It's inspired by an encounter between the two monarchs at which the queen is said to have bowed to Selassie - in recognition of an emperor being a higher rank than a queen

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🚀 Robert (2018) celebrates the life of Robert Henry Lawrence Jr., the first Black astronaut who was tragically killed in a training accident

✨ Find out more in our Exploration room within the exhibition Tavares Strachan: There is a Light Somewhere

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'I felt moved, I felt emboldened, and I felt seen.' 💛

Read @ConversationUK's powerful review of our current exhibition...

https://t.co/qQOyKMmegP

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Do you consider your hairdresser or barber to be an artist? 🪮💈 A Map of the Crown (2022-2024) is a series of bronze busts who have traditional African/Afro-Caribbean hairstyles made with human hair collected from barbershops in the Bahamas #ArtGallery #BlackHairstyles #HairArt

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We love hearing the sound of gasps echoing around our space as people witness Tavares Strachan's Black Star Line for the first time 😱

Take a closer look at the unbelievable artwork with @dezeen...

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Who will you discover woven into Tavares Strachan’s tapestries? 🪡🧵 Kojo (2022) is a mohair tapestry depicting Kojo Tovalou Houénou, a Benin-born, French-educated critic of the French colonial empire in Africa

Discover this and so many other hidden stories in our exhibition ✨

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How do you curate an exhibition for an artist as eclectic as Tavares Strachan? 🧠

@ElephantMag took a tour with our Assistant Curator, Thomas Sutton, to get a sneak peek into the curatorial process behind our current exhibition...

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