Untitled | Lotus L. Kang
2014
14 x 11 inches (16 x 13.25 inches framed)
Edition of 20, 3 APs
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
About a year ago I made a piece (Untitled, 2013) by dipping fifty exposed sheets of photographic paper into chemical fixative and hanging them, frieze-like, to fit the wall space of a gallery. Their unfixed sensitivity allowed them to develop over the course of the show. The pieces darkened more or less in relation to their proximity to natural light; their edges curled when it rained and relaxed when the humidity passed. They took on a life of their own, turning colours and shapes that were out of my control, judgment, even my desire. Presently that work lives as a stack in a box, protected from light and further development.
This marks the second iteration of the project. Untitled (2014): twenty-three dips, each sheet existing discretely. Yet the same thoughts and questions persist. The paper is an alchemized material, a neutral surface formulated to be predictable, consistent, subservient. Can this mute fixity shift? I imagine a slippery space in between this and some other undefined point, a site where material is self-expressive and up for collaboration. Where surface is actually a skin—sensitive, permeable, individual, ever becoming.
— Lotus L. Kang, 2014
ABOUT LOTUS L. KANG
Born 1985 in Toronto
Laurie Kang lives and works in Toronto. She has received the Duke and Duchess of York Prize in Photography as well as grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council. She holds an MFA from the Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College and a BFA from Concordia University. Kang will present a solo exhibition at Gallery TPW in 2018.
Selected solo exhibitions: “Line Litter,” Franz Kaka, Toronto (2017); “Nesticulations” (with Martha Tuttle), In Limbo, Brooklyn (2016); “Becoming” (with Ben Foch), LVL3, Chicago (2016); “The C Is Always Coming,” Raster Gallery, Warsaw (2015); “Differing Diffractions,” 8-11, Toronto (2015)
Selected group exhibitions: “Second Kamias Triennale,” Quezon, Phillippines (2017); “Chroma Lives,” Yorkville Plaza, Toronto (2016); “Labor Relations,” Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Wroclaw, Poland (2016); “The Mouth Holds the Tongue,” The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto (2015); “Cut Fold Rewrite,” Feldbuschwiesner, Berlin (2014); “Sculpture: Photography as Material Collision,” Camera Austria, Graz (2013)
2014
14 x 11 inches (16 x 13.25 inches framed)
Edition of 20, 3 APs
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
About a year ago I made a piece (Untitled, 2013) by dipping fifty exposed sheets of photographic paper into chemical fixative and hanging them, frieze-like, to fit the wall space of a gallery. Their unfixed sensitivity allowed them to develop over the course of the show. The pieces darkened more or less in relation to their proximity to natural light; their edges curled when it rained and relaxed when the humidity passed. They took on a life of their own, turning colours and shapes that were out of my control, judgment, even my desire. Presently that work lives as a stack in a box, protected from light and further development.
This marks the second iteration of the project. Untitled (2014): twenty-three dips, each sheet existing discretely. Yet the same thoughts and questions persist. The paper is an alchemized material, a neutral surface formulated to be predictable, consistent, subservient. Can this mute fixity shift? I imagine a slippery space in between this and some other undefined point, a site where material is self-expressive and up for collaboration. Where surface is actually a skin—sensitive, permeable, individual, ever becoming.
— Lotus L. Kang, 2014
ABOUT LOTUS L. KANG
Born 1985 in Toronto
Laurie Kang lives and works in Toronto. She has received the Duke and Duchess of York Prize in Photography as well as grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council. She holds an MFA from the Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College and a BFA from Concordia University. Kang will present a solo exhibition at Gallery TPW in 2018.
Selected solo exhibitions: “Line Litter,” Franz Kaka, Toronto (2017); “Nesticulations” (with Martha Tuttle), In Limbo, Brooklyn (2016); “Becoming” (with Ben Foch), LVL3, Chicago (2016); “The C Is Always Coming,” Raster Gallery, Warsaw (2015); “Differing Diffractions,” 8-11, Toronto (2015)
Selected group exhibitions: “Second Kamias Triennale,” Quezon, Phillippines (2017); “Chroma Lives,” Yorkville Plaza, Toronto (2016); “Labor Relations,” Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Wroclaw, Poland (2016); “The Mouth Holds the Tongue,” The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto (2015); “Cut Fold Rewrite,” Feldbuschwiesner, Berlin (2014); “Sculpture: Photography as Material Collision,” Camera Austria, Graz (2013)
2014
14 x 11 inches (16 x 13.25 inches framed)
Edition of 20, 3 APs
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
About a year ago I made a piece (Untitled, 2013) by dipping fifty exposed sheets of photographic paper into chemical fixative and hanging them, frieze-like, to fit the wall space of a gallery. Their unfixed sensitivity allowed them to develop over the course of the show. The pieces darkened more or less in relation to their proximity to natural light; their edges curled when it rained and relaxed when the humidity passed. They took on a life of their own, turning colours and shapes that were out of my control, judgment, even my desire. Presently that work lives as a stack in a box, protected from light and further development.
This marks the second iteration of the project. Untitled (2014): twenty-three dips, each sheet existing discretely. Yet the same thoughts and questions persist. The paper is an alchemized material, a neutral surface formulated to be predictable, consistent, subservient. Can this mute fixity shift? I imagine a slippery space in between this and some other undefined point, a site where material is self-expressive and up for collaboration. Where surface is actually a skin—sensitive, permeable, individual, ever becoming.
— Lotus L. Kang, 2014
ABOUT LOTUS L. KANG
Born 1985 in Toronto
Laurie Kang lives and works in Toronto. She has received the Duke and Duchess of York Prize in Photography as well as grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council. She holds an MFA from the Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College and a BFA from Concordia University. Kang will present a solo exhibition at Gallery TPW in 2018.
Selected solo exhibitions: “Line Litter,” Franz Kaka, Toronto (2017); “Nesticulations” (with Martha Tuttle), In Limbo, Brooklyn (2016); “Becoming” (with Ben Foch), LVL3, Chicago (2016); “The C Is Always Coming,” Raster Gallery, Warsaw (2015); “Differing Diffractions,” 8-11, Toronto (2015)
Selected group exhibitions: “Second Kamias Triennale,” Quezon, Phillippines (2017); “Chroma Lives,” Yorkville Plaza, Toronto (2016); “Labor Relations,” Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Wroclaw, Poland (2016); “The Mouth Holds the Tongue,” The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto (2015); “Cut Fold Rewrite,” Feldbuschwiesner, Berlin (2014); “Sculpture: Photography as Material Collision,” Camera Austria, Graz (2013)