Lotus L. Kang has been selected by Bvlgari as the inaugural artist for its pavilion

Known for her complexly layered environments that meld organic, structural and metabolic languages, Lotus L. Kang’s works give poetic form to reflections on themes spanning inheritance, impermanence, memory, and translation. Working fluidly between sculpture, photography and site-responsive installation, she frequently draws on unfixed, unstable materials and forms in her practice, giving evocative, often expansive shape to questions of “becoming.” Kang has been commissioned to produce a major new installation for the Bvlgari Pavilion, one that continues her enduring engagement with time as multiplicitous and non-linear. Matthew Hyland, Executive Director of the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, has been appointed curator of the project. This presentation is a centerpiece of Bvlgari’s role as Exclusive Partner of La Biennale di Venezia, a partnership