Molt (Toronto-Chicago-Woodridge-New York-Los Angeles-)

Lotus L. Kang · 2022–25

This is Molt, by Lotus L. Kang. The film hanging here is tanned but never fixed, which means it is still light-sensitive and still changing — it has been darkening since it was hung and will not stop. The aluminium kelp knot and the magnets are cast; the film is the only part of the work that is alive.

Medium Tanned and unfixed film (continually sensitive), spherical magnets, cast aluminum kelp knot, and steel · Dimensions Dimensions variable · Credit Fund for The Twenty-First Century

Hanging beside it in Gallery 212: Morphologie du rêve #7 from the series Sama Guent Guii

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Kwannon, Laocoön, Table Piece LXXXVIII (The Deluge), Spider, Lyric No. 14 (Ode to the Spring), Encounter