Jennifer Caroline Campbell has a poetic response to Lotus Laurie Kang's artworks in a show at the Chisenhale Gallery.
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| Photos Jennifer Caroline Campbell |
Lotus Laurie Kang's multidisciplinary practice lets the process lead the way forward. Her work utilises a fine-tuned sensitivity to materials and their liveliness. The work often carries on developing beyond the conventional finishing point, and so, just like us, it is in a state of perpetual becoming. Her current installation at Chisenhale Gallery, In Cascades, is her first institutional solo exhibition in Europe, and I hope it is the first of many. Here is my response to it:
Slow sun bathing through glass panes.
Writhing shapes in the sand.
My body moves the air, nudging the glossy slithers that hang from a perforated, gleaming grid.
Thin slices of remembered light, still forming.
A sunset in a darkroom, repeated.
I might fall into the seams, like the silver bits.
Lined up twists of kelp, anchovies and cabbage.
I keep moving, looping.
A shiny ghost stops me at the edge.
Two rigid mice, clinging and gone.
Or a mirrored twin.
I turn back in like a ball bearing.
My reflection licks just above the floor.
Edges breaking.
Small hard spheres hug through a slippery surface, gripping and ready to let go of the curling film.
Lotus Laurie Kang, In Cascades
Chisenhale Gallery, London E3
2 June – 30 July 2023
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