Airan Kang: Light Reading Opening Reception

Not only is this the artist’s first solo exhibition in New York, but also her first solo endeavor in the United States. Kang’s artistic lexis centers on book-shaped sculptures fashioned out of resin and LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes). For nearly a decade she has been both personifying and objectifying discourse and our concepts of knowledge by simulating libraries, bookstores, and reading rooms. Made with LED devices that emit colored lights programmed to continually change in brightness, hue and intensity, each “book”� in this exhibition conflates material and ephemeral depictions of knowledge to realize the pluralistic spaces of our imagination.