Greenhouse as Darkroom | Lotus Kang’s experiments

In this intimate artist profile, meet Lotus L. Kang as she experiments with exposing film in her studio and, uniquely, a greenhouse. Kang uses industrial-sized sheets of photographic film that she has left unfixed, such that they change in response to light and humidity. Likening these sheets to the human body, the artist refers to them as "skins" and to their ongoing transformation as "tanning." Her openness to the in-between and chance and use of objects important to her Korean heritage speak to diasporic experience. Watch as she shares the unpredictable process behind her immersive work where everyday objects bruise, light leaks, and the unknown leads the way.

Here, Kang discusses her openness to chance and intuition as she creates photograms that bear the traces of materials related to her Korean heritage and environment kinetic installations. Kang transforms everyday objects into poetic traces of diasporic memory, impermanence, and decay.

Filmed in part at Denniston Hill, a residency, artist support network, and social sculpture for radical community building.

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