Clarion Vol 15: Lotus L. Kang: Already

Curator’s Note by Ebony L. Haynes
Texts by Joan Kee, Dan Adler, Cathy Park Hong, and Lotus L. Kang

Conversations with Precious Okoyomon and Lotus L. Kang 

The fifteenth title in the Clarion series explores the work of the multidisciplinary artist Lotus L. Kang, who uses sculpture, photography, and installation to engage with concepts of impermanence, memory, and time.

Kang’s installations utilize materiality, particularly photographic paper and film, to engage with the problematics of temporality and temporal collapse. Her work uses space as an in-between which undoes standardization and simplification of binary relations, like that of inside/outside, death/birth, or before/after. At the center of Kang’s work is a purposeful engagement with translation and the poetics of translation as it relates to the material worlds in which she operates.

With a curator’s note by Ebony L. Haynes, this issue features texts by Joan Kee, Dan Adler, Cathy Park Hong, and Lotus L. Kang. Kee opens this volume with an exploration of the theoretical and spiritual qualities found in Kang’s work, followed by Adler’s examination of the authorially-embedded, yet open-ended qualities that subtend Kang’s work in the exhibition. This is then followed by Park Hong’s essay which surveys the incredible specificity of Kang’s Molts series and a final artist reflection by Kang herself. This volume also includes a conversation between Precious Okoyomon and Kang where the two artists discuss the habits, rituals, forms of discipline, and ideas that shape their respective practices.