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[May 18 2023] : art
Eddie Kang’s solo exhibition: Crossroad at Gana Art Los Angeles
Eddie Kang’s solo exhibition: Crossroad will be available for viewing (by appointment) from the 15th of April until the 21st of May at Gana Art Los Angeles, 1142 Seward Street, Los Angeles 90038.
This project is born out of Kang’s own desire and effort in better explaining parting, grief and hope to his own niece after the passing of the artist’s sister-in-law in 2019. Through artworks of diverse materialities such as paper, paintings and a bronze sculpture Kang reflects on this subject through the figure of the yeti, which represents a benevolent figure who watches over the girl beyond the visible realm.
“The yeti, in Himalayan lore, has been depicted as a helper, a guardian against evil spirits. For as long as people have told stories, people have told stories of sightings; of flashes of the beast’s silhouette or evidence that it exists in footprints, in traces.One could argue that the yeti does exist, somewhere in the liminal realm. As in quantum physics, our perception makes it so. The yeti is a form onto which we project hope, or perhaps fear, but in any case a belief in something beyond the documented world, a reverence for the great mystery.”
Text by Eviana Hartman and Eddie Kang
Portraits by Johnny Le
