Lotus L. Kang: September 21 - October 26, 2024
Emilija Škarnulytė: November 9 - December 21, 2024
Julian Abraham ‘Togar’: January 18 - February 22, 2025
Exploring ideas of memory, archive, and history, Commonwealth and Council presents an exhibition in three acts by artists Lotus L. Kang, Emilija Škarnulytė, and Julian Abraham 'Togar'. Kang and Škarnulytė explore ecofeminist, diasporic questions into heritage and history. Kang’s bodily, affective installations obliquely record and process her Korean-Canadian heritage, photosensitive films “tanned” by the artist in fleshy tones carry the provenance of her nomadic life and aluminum casts of anchovies and cabbage leaves create vestigial clues to her inheritances. Škarnulytė’s videos draw on myriad topics from the legacy of the Cold War to climate change to create speculative documentarian narratives from posthuman perspectives. For the final act, Julian Abraham “Togar,” an artist, musician, and, “pseudo-scientist,” creates environments nodding to the politics and materiality of sound. His DIY kinetic works underscore who gets to make sound (and thus speech) and how they are recorded.
"Aldona," 2013, Emilija Škarnulytė. Single-channel 16mm HD video, color, sound, 13 min. All images courtesy of the artist and Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles, Mexico City. Copyright the artist.
