Haegue Yang's floating tree takes root in Taiwan

Haegue Yang's floating tree takes root in Taiwan

TAICHUNG, Taiwan — Dangling in the soaring, light-bathed atrium of the new Taichung Art Museum is a 24-meter-tall “tree,” improbably hanging upside down. Trees, of course, are meant to root themselves in the earth. But in artist Haegue Yang’s vision, gravity is quietly overturned. The result is “Liquid Votive — Tree Shade Triad,” a floating form in which deep green venetian blinds become branches and leaves, while LED tubes coil around it like t…