Haena Yoo
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I’VE GONE TO LOOK FOR AMERICA (REVOLVER), 2021
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Rice paper dyed in soy sauce
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13 x 7 x 1.25 inches
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Courtesy the artist and Murmurs Gallery, Los Angeles
I’VE GONE TO LOOK FOR AMERICA (RIFLE), 2021
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Rice paper dyed in soy sauce
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31 x 7 x 1.25 inches
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Courtesy the artist and Murmurs Gallery, Los Angeles
I’VE GONE TO LOOK FOR AMERICA (PISTOL II), 2021
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Rice paper dyed in soy sauce
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10 x 7 x 1.25 inches
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Courtesy the artist and Murmurs Gallery, Los Angeles
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About the work
A series of I’ve gone to look for America are folded origami paper guns printed in collective articles on mass media reporting Asian Hate Crimes during the Covid-19 pandemic.
About the artist
HAENA YOO is a multidisciplinary artist who works between Seoul and Los Angeles. Yoo makes installations constructed with found materials, video, sound, and smell, exploring themes of labor, identity, and global capitalism. Through a tinkering process, she uses materials borrowed from different minority cultures, making operative systems that symbolize social interactions and power structures resulting from neo-globalization. Her work often shows the urgency created by limiting materials to what is at hand, showing the archeological and socio-political status of the maker.
Yoo has had solo exhibitions and projects at Murmurs, Los Angeles (2021); P.bibeau, New York City (2021); u’s, Calgary (2020) among others, and she presented a collaborative exhibition with Erin Carla Watson at As It Stands (2019); Sterling Wells at AWHRHWAR, Los Angeles (2018). Selected group exhibitions have been held at Other Places Art Fair, San Pedro (2019); Torrance Art Museum, Torrance (2018); Leroy’s, Los Angeles (2018); AALA, Los Angeles (2018). She is a recipient of a 2018 Emerging Artist Grant from the Rema Hort Mann Foundation.
Haena Yoo
