Quasi Pagan Modern

Galeries Lafayette invites its customers to the heart of a prestigious setting that immerses them in an irrational and enchanting place, creating a unique experience. The brand invites artists and designers to create original works in the department stores' and under its Cupola, which enhance and sublimate this architectural heritage.

From August 26 to October 9, 2016, the artist Haegue Yang will propose hybrid motifs that dare to confront different notions such as craft/modernity, real/supernatural or geometric/organic under the title Quasi-Pagan Modern. In the heart of the main shop, under the dome, Haegue Yang undertakes for the first time a work based on vertical prints.

Haegue Yang, born in 1971 in Seoul, South Korea, now lives between Berlin and Seoul. Her work stands out for its singularity and its sophisticated combination of the rational and the strange. Her work reflects cultural references related to history and political and social phenomena, while relying on a formal reinterpretation of artistic avant-gardes, and thus producing a protean contemporary work.