Lotus L. Kang: Bvlgari Pavilion

In celebration of its role as Exclusive Partner of the 61st Venice Biennale, Bvlgari presents The face of desire is loss, a new commission from artist Lotus L. Kang.

Known for her complexly layered environments that meld organic, structural and metabolic languages, the work of Lotus L. Kang (b. 1985, Toronto) gives poetic form to reflections on themes spanning inheritance, impermanence, memory, and translation.

For the Bvlgari Pavilion, Kang presents The face of desire is loss, an installation that continues her enduring engagement with time as unruly, sedimentary and non-linear. A series of unfixed photographic film anchor the exhibition, suspended from lengths of steel joist. This film will remain continuously sensitive to its environment, developing over the course of the Biennale as it is exposed to the light and humidity of the pavilion.

Amidst the skins, Kang installs a series of new sculptural works, rendered from tatami mats, cast objects, spirits, and other changeable forms. Encasing the windows of the space with lengths of 35mm celluloid, Kang disperses the film's duration into a flat, simultaneous plane, as stage lights cast shifting hues of interstitial light across the installation.