Lotus L. Kang Molt (Woodridge-New York-Seattle-), 2026

Lotus L. Kang employs industrial-sized sheets of photographic film that she has left unfixed, allowing them to change in response to light and humidity. The shadowy impressions on the film create layered, visceral timescales, rendered in a palette of yellow, orange, red, purple and brown.

By intentionally misusing the material, exposing it to sunlight and manipulating its exposure in both planned and unforeseen ways, the artist has invented modes of inscribing her process, turning the film into indexes of overlapping durations. The film is “tanned” — or exposed — across multiple sites: her studio, her home, and predominantly, in a greenhouse situated in upstate New York. A structure that is not fully inside nor fully outside, the greenhouse embodies an in-between space that holds cycles of growth and decay.