"Haegue Yang's exhibition is an elegant argument for the affective emancipatory possibilities of abstract sculpture. The roomsize installation- an austere landscape of venetian blinds, space heaters, fans, and theatrical lights- combines the phenomenological bent of James Turrel and Olafur Eliasson with the machine aesthetic of Dennis Oppenheim. Suspended from the ceiling in a darkened, cavernous gallery, the blinds form a mazelike structure lit by slowly rowing beams from high-tech theatrical spotlights and the warm glow of nearby heating elements. Moody shadows encircle the room, and slippery moiré patterns appear and dissolve across the blinds. The overall effect is an eternal twilight, that melancholy juncture between day and night, between one moment and the next. But this pensive mood is recast as a deadlock by the arrangment of heaters and fans, whose extravagant expenditures of energy cancel each other out. "
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