• Lotus Laurie Kang
  • CV
  • Molt, Horizon Art Foundation
  • Mesoderm, 2022-ongoing
  • 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 Laurie Kang
CV
Molt, Horizon Art Foundation
Mesoderm, 2022-ongoing
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

Her Own Devices, Franz Kaka

June 29 - July 18 2020


Her Own Devices: Skins, Containing, and Being Contained, Esmé Hogeveen, The Brooklyn Rail


I was excited when Laurie first told me the themes she had in mind for our summer group show, which was scheduled to open June 26th. Last year Laurie’s sister Hanna had similarly organized a group exhibition at the gallery and it was such a generative way of extending the gallery’s community that I was looking forward to seeing it repeated. But as things began to close at home, and with the knowledge that a number of the artists Laurie was hoping to include were either in New York or oversees, it wasn’t long into lockdown before we realized we would need to postpone.

It was difficult to know when to invite audiences back to the gallery and what sort of exhibition might best suit the occasion. Beyond only waiting for the okay from health authorities, our programming was now wholly uncertain and so whatever we chose would necessarily veer toward the unplanned, the contingent, the as yet unformed. In May it began to feel that reopening this summer was a possibility and Laurie suggested installing a single work that she had recently completed while in residence at the Banff Centre earlier this year. Something about this felt like it was striking the right tone; that a single work offered an invitation to return without demanding attendance in the way that a planned and laboured exhibition might.

The work is comprised of 35 unique photograms, made using bags that once carried firewood and onions, which Laurie actively collects. These bags are tools meant for the holding of other tools. These are devices that may also devise. They are sacs, they are skins, they are full of holes, porous and permeable. The contents they carry are staples that may generate growth or aid destruction, holding potential to both form and ruin.

What do you carry? What do you care for? What do you hope to build and burn?

Spit
Pigmented silicone, stretch wrap
2016-2020

Glean
onion skins, sand, silicone

Her Own Devices
35 photograms

Her Own Devices, Franz Kaka

June 29 - July 18 2020


Her Own Devices: Skins, Containing, and Being Contained, Esmé Hogeveen, The Brooklyn Rail


I was excited when Laurie first told me the themes she had in mind for our summer group show, which was scheduled to open June 26th. Last year Laurie’s sister Hanna had similarly organized a group exhibition at the gallery and it was such a generative way of extending the gallery’s community that I was looking forward to seeing it repeated. But as things began to close at home, and with the knowledge that a number of the artists Laurie was hoping to include were either in New York or oversees, it wasn’t long into lockdown before we realized we would need to postpone.

It was difficult to know when to invite audiences back to the gallery and what sort of exhibition might best suit the occasion. Beyond only waiting for the okay from health authorities, our programming was now wholly uncertain and so whatever we chose would necessarily veer toward the unplanned, the contingent, the as yet unformed. In May it began to feel that reopening this summer was a possibility and Laurie suggested installing a single work that she had recently completed while in residence at the Banff Centre earlier this year. Something about this felt like it was striking the right tone; that a single work offered an invitation to return without demanding attendance in the way that a planned and laboured exhibition might.

The work is comprised of 35 unique photograms, made using bags that once carried firewood and onions, which Laurie actively collects. These bags are tools meant for the holding of other tools. These are devices that may also devise. They are sacs, they are skins, they are full of holes, porous and permeable. The contents they carry are staples that may generate growth or aid destruction, holding potential to both form and ruin.

What do you carry? What do you care for? What do you hope to build and burn?

Spit
Pigmented silicone, stretch wrap
2016-2020

Glean
onion skins, sand, silicone

Her Own Devices
35 photograms