Lotus L. Kang: A Night of Poetry and Translation

The evening will open with a workshop on how translation can open new paths for poetic expression across languages and forms. Following the workshop and readings, An and Seo will be joined by artist Lotus L. Kang for a conversation about her relationship to poetry and translation, particularly in connection to her exhibition at 52 Walker.

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

is a multidisciplinary exhibition by artist Lotus L. Kang, presented by 52 Walker and curated by Ebony L. Haynes. Reflecting on impermanence, inheritance, memory, and time, Kang brings together sculpture, photography, and installation—including a selection of discrete objects, wall works, and a central installation staged within and around two modified greenhouses. These permeable, metabolic environments—titled Receiver Transmitter (49 Echoes I and II)—mirror each other across the gallery, enclosing light-sensitive materials that trace the presence of surrounding architecture and bodies. The exhibition title draws from a poem by Kim Hyesoon in Autobiography of Death (2019), evoking the Buddhist tradition of forty-nine days between death and rebirth. A kinetic sculpture from Kang’s Azaleas series, inspired by Kim Sowol’s 1925 poem, complements the show as a kind of underbelly, further exploring cycles of transformation and reverberation.

ABOUT LOTUS L. KANG

Lotus L. Kang is an interdisciplinary artist based in the United States and Canada. She holds a BFA from Concordia University, Montreal (2008), and an MFA from the Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College, New York (2015). Kang has exhibited widely across North America and internationally. Recent highlights include In Cascades (2023), a major traveling solo exhibition co-commissioned by Chisenhale Gallery, London, and Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, which was also featured in Even Better Than the Real Thing, the 2024 Whitney Biennial. Other solo exhibitions include presentations at Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles (2024); Franz Kaka, Toronto (2023, 2020, 2017); Helena Anrather, New York (2021); Oakville Galleries, Ontario (2019); Interstate Projects, New York (2018); and Raster Gallery, Warsaw (2015), among others.

ABOUT STINE AN AND JIMIN SEO

Stine An is a poet, translator, and educator whose work engages experimental language, diasporic poetics, and interdisciplinary performance. She holds an MFA in Poetry from Brown University and her translation of Today’s Morning Vocabulary by South Korean poet Yoo Heekyung is forthcoming from Zephyr Press this summer.

Jimin Seo is a poet and artist born in Seoul and based in the U.S. He is the author of OSSIA, selected by Louise Glück for The Changes Book Prize, and has presented work at the Barbican Centre and the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism.

ABOUT 52 WALKER

52 Walker is a David Zwirner gallery space programmed and led by senior director Ebony L. Haynes. The gallery takes its name from its location at 52 Walker Street in Tribeca, and occupies the first and lower floors of the five-story landmark building. Departing from the traditional commercial gallery format, 52 Walker's exhibition schedule resembles that of a kunsthalle with longer presentation timelines.

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