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The artwork features a vibrant, grid-like composition of raised, circular elements in shades of red and orange. At the center, a small canvas depicts a playful arrangement of red butterfly-like shapes, creating a captivating focal point. The overall style blends minimalism with a touch of whimsy, showcasing the artist's innovative use of materials and unconventional techniques. This piece likely explores themes of pattern, movement, and the interplay between two-dimensional and three-dimensional elements, inviting the viewer to engage with the work's dynamic visual language. ...
Lotus L. Kang
B.1985Lotus L. Kang sensitively cultivates installations which unearth porous connections between the human body and the world at large. Working with a myriad of materials, such as silicone, thread, film and foodstuffs, Kang weaves together recognisable objects such as mixing bowls, doors, or fruit and resituate these items in an otherworldly context. Acting as an alchemist, Kang is eager to document processes of flux or decay which might evolve during the installation. Experimenting with photographic materials, Kang incorporates darkroom chemicals, photographic paper and tanned film to track organic movements of light in the space. Simultaneously, Kang halts natural processes, casting edible materials such as anchovies or cabbage leaves in aluminium shells, affording her installations a sense of temporal suspension. Each body of work hosts a mixture of movement and stillness, of fragile and concrete elements and domestic and industrial signifiers. Facets of ecology, politics and cultural tangents collide in Kang’s works, as the artist intricately wrestles with the utter complexity of contemporary life. Citing the influence of feminist theory, biology and science fiction upon her practice, Kang is able to untangle the global within an extremely personal scale. ...