• Lotus L. Kang
  • CV
  • Already, 52 Walker
  • Azaleas II, 52 Walker
  • Molt, 52 Walker
  • Azaleas, Commonwealth and Council
  • In Cascades, Whitney Museum of American Art
  • Receiver Transmitter (Butterfly), MOCA Toronto
  • In Cascades, Contemporary Art Gallery Vancouver
  • In Cascades, Chisenhale Gallery
  • Mesoderm, 2022-ongoing
  • Fleshing Out The Ghost, Deborah Schamoni
  • Mesoderm, Franz Kaka
  • Molt, MCA Chicago
  • Molt, Horizon Art Foundation
  • Do Redo Repeat, Catriona Jeffries
  • Great Shuttle, New Museum
  • Earth Surge, Helena Anrather and Franz Kaka
  • Her Own Devices, Franz Kaka
  • In Practice: Total Disbelief, SculptureCenter
  • Beolle, Oakville Galleries
  • Eidetic Tides, SAAG
  • Guts
  • Terrene
  • If I have a body, Remai Modern
  • Asphodel Meadows
  • NADA House, Governors Island
  • Channeller, Interstate Projects
  • A Body Knots, Gallery TPW
  • Fascia Lines, Projet Pangee
  • Line Litter, Franz Kaka
  • How deep is your love?, Cooper Cole
  • Nesticulations, In Limbo
  • Knots
  • Babble On, Rockaway Topless
  • The Mouth Holds the Tongue, The Power Plant
  • Untitled, Erin Stump Projects
Lotus L. Kang
CV
Already, 52 Walker
Azaleas II, 52 Walker
Molt, 52 Walker
Azaleas, Commonwealth and Council
In Cascades, Whitney Museum of American Art
Receiver Transmitter (Butterfly), MOCA Toronto
In Cascades, Contemporary Art Gallery Vancouver
In Cascades, Chisenhale Gallery
Mesoderm, 2022-ongoing
Fleshing Out The Ghost, Deborah Schamoni
Mesoderm, Franz Kaka
Molt, MCA Chicago
Molt, Horizon Art Foundation
Do Redo Repeat, Catriona Jeffries
Great Shuttle, New Museum
Earth Surge, Helena Anrather and Franz Kaka
Her Own Devices, Franz Kaka
In Practice: Total Disbelief, SculptureCenter
Beolle, Oakville Galleries
Eidetic Tides, SAAG
Guts
Terrene
If I have a body, Remai Modern
Asphodel Meadows
NADA House, Governors Island
Channeller, Interstate Projects
A Body Knots, Gallery TPW
Fascia Lines, Projet Pangee
Line Litter, Franz Kaka
How deep is your love?, Cooper Cole
Nesticulations, In Limbo
Knots
Babble On, Rockaway Topless
The Mouth Holds the Tongue, The Power Plant
Untitled, Erin Stump Projects
Lotus L. Kang
In Cascades
2 June 2023 - 30 July 2023

Interview between Lotus L. Kang and exhibition curator Amy Jones

Further info: Exhibition handout, Video Tour, Reading List, Publication, Limited Edition 


Lotus Laurie Kang’s artworks evolve with time. Working across sculpture, photography, installation and drawing, the artist uses her acute sensitivity to process and site to reflect on bodies, identities, memories, and histories. For Kang’s first institutional solo exhibition in Europe, In Cascades reorganises the spaces and fissures of Chisenhale Gallery, asking what is passed down and what is lost as we move through the world?

At the centre of the exhibition, ten industrial steel joists are suspended from the gallery’s ceiling. Echoing the lotus root – a recurring motif in Kang’s practice – the joists contain cavities that enhance their strength; a generative absence through which Kang’s commission materialises. Swathes of exposed photographic film tumble from each joist. Vulnerable to their surroundings, their porous skins continue to absorb light and humidity; bodies in states of perpetual becoming.

Sculptures, using tatami mats as their foundation, lie on the floor of the gallery. A portable, domestic technology, they imply cyclical movement and adaptability; a vessel upon which to rest a body on the move. Elsewhere, sand-cast aluminium sculptures of lotus roots, anchovies, and kelp knots sprout discreetly. Seven rat pups, cast in coloured glass, recline and tangle at the edges of the gallery. They are in-betweeners that live across and within the hollows of infrastructures; repellent pests, accepted kin, and human proxies in scientific contexts.

Through close attention to material, site, and process, Kang’s commission slips between what is seen and what is felt, what is abundant and what is lost, continually imprinting upon us the recurring question: what sticks and what falls away?

As an extension of Kang’s commission, her first publication will launch in July 2023, including new photography; a conversation between Kang and poet CAConrad; an essay by writer Estelle Hoy; as well as original texts by the exhibition’s curator Amy Jones and curator Victoria Sung.



In Cascades is commissioned by Chisenhale Gallery, London, and the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, where the exhibition will be presented from 22 September 2023–7 January 2024.


In Cascades architecture developed in collaboration with David Andrew Tasman.


Lotus Laurie Kang’s commission is produced with support from the Chisenhale Gallery Commissions Fund.


Lead Supporters: Canada Council for the Arts and The Foundation Foundation.


Headline Supporter: Henry Moore Foundation.


The associated book is produced by Chisenhale Gallery, London, and Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver. Published by Hurtwood Press.


Publication Lead Supporter: Asymmetry Art Foundation.


Chisenhale Gallery’s Public Programme 2023 is supported by the Talks & Events Supporters Circle.


Chisenhale Gallery’s Schools’ Programme 2023 is made possible through the generosity of Headline Supporter Goodman Gallery.


The Chisenhale Gallery Curatorial Fellowship 2023-24 is supported by the Terra Foundation of American Art.


The 2023-24 Asymmetry Curatorial Research Fellow is hosted by Chisenhale Gallery.


Lotus L. Kang would like to acknowledge the support of the Ontario Arts Council.


In Cascades
Super Joist, steel, hardware, tanned and unfixed film (continually sensitive), sheet silicone, cast aluminium kelp knots, cast aluminium lotus root, spherical magnets
3500 x 6960 x 11430mm
Core
Cast aluminium dried pear
20 x 80 x 80mm 
Receiver Transmitter (Viola Mandshurica)
Tatami mat, cast aluminium cabbage, photographic paper, darkroom chemicals, sheet silicone, paper, tangerines, photographs from the series Fleshing Out The Ghost
400 x 500 x 1460mm 
Sticky Pup II
Cast glass
30 x 110 x 45mm
Receiver Transmitter (Intervertebral)
Tatami mat, sheet silicone, stretch wrap, cast aluminium intervertebral discs, cast aluminium shiitake, cast aluminium lotus root, cast bronze lotus root, sesame seeds, nylon, photographs from the series Fleshing Out The Ghost
90 x 1000 x 1150mm 
Receiver Transmitter (Perilla Frutescens)
Tatami mat, pigmented silicone, sheet silicone, cast aluminium perilla leaves, photographs from the series Fleshing Out The Ghost
260 x 580 x 910mm
Leak
Cast aluminium yellow croaker, cast aluminium ginseng, cast aluminium cabbage, cast aluminium lotus root, cast aluminium shiitake, pigmented silicone, nylon
170 x 910 x 70mm
Regurgitation
Cast aluminium anchovies, pigmented silicone
Dimensions variable 
Tract I
Thirty-eight cast aluminium kelp knots, cotton thread
3340 x 80 x 80mm 
Sticky Pup III Cast glass 30 x 100 x 23mm
Receiver Transmitter (Brassica) Tatami mat, cast aluminium cabbage, pigmented silicone, mung beans, duck canvas, photographs from the series Fleshing Out The Ghost 63 x 2060 x 970mm
Sticky Pup IV
Cast glass
30 x 160 x 70mm
Sticky Pup I
Cast glass
25 x 100 x 25mm
Tract II
Cast aluminium anchovies, nylon thread
1340 x 80 x 80mm
Lotus
Cast bronze lotus root
30 x 30 x 5mm 
Lotus L. Kang
In Cascades
2 June 2023 - 30 July 2023

Interview between Lotus L. Kang and exhibition curator Amy Jones

Further info: Exhibition handout, Video Tour, Reading List, Publication, Limited Edition 


Lotus Laurie Kang’s artworks evolve with time. Working across sculpture, photography, installation and drawing, the artist uses her acute sensitivity to process and site to reflect on bodies, identities, memories, and histories. For Kang’s first institutional solo exhibition in Europe, In Cascades reorganises the spaces and fissures of Chisenhale Gallery, asking what is passed down and what is lost as we move through the world?

At the centre of the exhibition, ten industrial steel joists are suspended from the gallery’s ceiling. Echoing the lotus root – a recurring motif in Kang’s practice – the joists contain cavities that enhance their strength; a generative absence through which Kang’s commission materialises. Swathes of exposed photographic film tumble from each joist. Vulnerable to their surroundings, their porous skins continue to absorb light and humidity; bodies in states of perpetual becoming.

Sculptures, using tatami mats as their foundation, lie on the floor of the gallery. A portable, domestic technology, they imply cyclical movement and adaptability; a vessel upon which to rest a body on the move. Elsewhere, sand-cast aluminium sculptures of lotus roots, anchovies, and kelp knots sprout discreetly. Seven rat pups, cast in coloured glass, recline and tangle at the edges of the gallery. They are in-betweeners that live across and within the hollows of infrastructures; repellent pests, accepted kin, and human proxies in scientific contexts.

Through close attention to material, site, and process, Kang’s commission slips between what is seen and what is felt, what is abundant and what is lost, continually imprinting upon us the recurring question: what sticks and what falls away?

As an extension of Kang’s commission, her first publication will launch in July 2023, including new photography; a conversation between Kang and poet CAConrad; an essay by writer Estelle Hoy; as well as original texts by the exhibition’s curator Amy Jones and curator Victoria Sung.



In Cascades is commissioned by Chisenhale Gallery, London, and the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, where the exhibition will be presented from 22 September 2023–7 January 2024.


In Cascades architecture developed in collaboration with David Andrew Tasman.


Lotus Laurie Kang’s commission is produced with support from the Chisenhale Gallery Commissions Fund.


Lead Supporters: Canada Council for the Arts and The Foundation Foundation.


Headline Supporter: Henry Moore Foundation.


The associated book is produced by Chisenhale Gallery, London, and Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver. Published by Hurtwood Press.


Publication Lead Supporter: Asymmetry Art Foundation.


Chisenhale Gallery’s Public Programme 2023 is supported by the Talks & Events Supporters Circle.


Chisenhale Gallery’s Schools’ Programme 2023 is made possible through the generosity of Headline Supporter Goodman Gallery.


The Chisenhale Gallery Curatorial Fellowship 2023-24 is supported by the Terra Foundation of American Art.


The 2023-24 Asymmetry Curatorial Research Fellow is hosted by Chisenhale Gallery.


Lotus L. Kang would like to acknowledge the support of the Ontario Arts Council.


In Cascades
Super Joist, steel, hardware, tanned and unfixed film (continually sensitive), sheet silicone, cast aluminium kelp knots, cast aluminium lotus root, spherical magnets
3500 x 6960 x 11430mm
Core
Cast aluminium dried pear
20 x 80 x 80mm 
Receiver Transmitter (Viola Mandshurica)
Tatami mat, cast aluminium cabbage, photographic paper, darkroom chemicals, sheet silicone, paper, tangerines, photographs from the series Fleshing Out The Ghost
400 x 500 x 1460mm 
Sticky Pup II
Cast glass
30 x 110 x 45mm
Receiver Transmitter (Intervertebral)
Tatami mat, sheet silicone, stretch wrap, cast aluminium intervertebral discs, cast aluminium shiitake, cast aluminium lotus root, cast bronze lotus root, sesame seeds, nylon, photographs from the series Fleshing Out The Ghost
90 x 1000 x 1150mm 
Receiver Transmitter (Perilla Frutescens)
Tatami mat, pigmented silicone, sheet silicone, cast aluminium perilla leaves, photographs from the series Fleshing Out The Ghost
260 x 580 x 910mm
Leak
Cast aluminium yellow croaker, cast aluminium ginseng, cast aluminium cabbage, cast aluminium lotus root, cast aluminium shiitake, pigmented silicone, nylon
170 x 910 x 70mm
Regurgitation
Cast aluminium anchovies, pigmented silicone
Dimensions variable 
Tract I
Thirty-eight cast aluminium kelp knots, cotton thread
3340 x 80 x 80mm 
Sticky Pup III Cast glass 30 x 100 x 23mm
Receiver Transmitter (Brassica) Tatami mat, cast aluminium cabbage, pigmented silicone, mung beans, duck canvas, photographs from the series Fleshing Out The Ghost 63 x 2060 x 970mm
Sticky Pup IV
Cast glass
30 x 160 x 70mm
Sticky Pup I
Cast glass
25 x 100 x 25mm
Tract II
Cast aluminium anchovies, nylon thread
1340 x 80 x 80mm
Lotus
Cast bronze lotus root
30 x 30 x 5mm