Discover how exhibiting artist Lotus L. Kang and multidisciplinary artist Nour Mobarak embrace poetry, memory, music, and history as generative forces within their work. In a lively conversation moderated by Curator Georgia Erger, they’ll explore points of overlap and departure across their practices.

Presented in conjunction with Lotus L. Kang: I hear the hollow boom of time this conversation invites you to deepen your experience of the exhibition and consider how contemporary artists translate ephemeral phenomena such as memory, rhythm, and resonance into form.

About the Artists

Lotus L. Kang lives and works in New York and has exhibited widely in the United States and abroad. Solo presentations include 52 Walker, New York (2025); Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles (2024); Chisenhale Gallery, London and Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (2023); Franz Kaka, Toronto (2023, 2020, 2017); and Helena Anrather, New York (2021), among others. The artist is the recipient of notable awards, including the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2024); Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant (2024); Nancy Graves Grant for Visual Artists (2024); and the Sobey Art Award, Longlist (2022, 2019). Work by Kang is held in prominent institutional collections worldwide. She received a BFA from Concordia University, Montreal, and an MFA from the Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College, New York.

Nour Mobarak excavates the compulsions and glitches of violence and desire from the body, the earth, and her surrounding environment through multimedia paintings, voice, sculptural works, sound, performance, video, and writing. To experience Mobarak’s rich interior world is like standing at the edge of an archeological site and gazing upon enduring, petrified objects set into new orbit. Her works are exercises in giving form to death and decomposition, in giving form to and making space for resilience. The viewer is invited to decipher root forms and branching networks that guide us out of our Anglocentrism, awakening dormant thoughts and sensations. Miguel Abreu Gallery co-represents the artist with Sylvia Kouvali in London and Piraeus, Greece.