“Delivery Dancer’s Arc: Inverse” Installation view ©Ayoung KimAsia
Culture Center (ACC) presents the solo exhibition “Delivery Dancer’s Arc: Inverse” by the
inaugural ACC Future Prize winner, Ayoung Kim, on view through February 16,
2025. The “ACC Future Prize” is a prestigious arts award aimed at discovering
creative artists who push the boundaries of innovative future values and
possibilities. This year’s exhibition features the first awardee, Ayoung Kim’s
new work.
Based on
extensive research, Kim has been exploring contemporary issues and
relationships between fact and fiction, record and representation, and
historical events across various domains, including society, culture, politics,
and economics. Since 2017, Kim has been attracting attention from both domestic
and international art world for her unique work that reconfigures
macro-narratives such as migration, capitalism, and national ideology into
hybrid and overlapping speculative narratives dominated by archaeology,
futurism, and science fiction imagination.
“Delivery Dancer’s Arc: Inverse” delves into traditional cosmologies and time systems that have
gradually faded with the advent of Western modernization, seeking to revive
them through contemporary art narratives. Also, Kim actively engages with the
tense of the future through collaboration with AI. The computational outcomes
of the AI system, rooted in her speculative narratives, encompass not only
imaginative futures but also continuously calculated ones.
This
exhibition transcends time and space, venturing into a realm of possibilities
where seemingly unrelated entities are connected. It also encourages viewers to
reconsider the cultural and historical power dynamics between nations,
politics, and religion in the context of modernization and to reflect on the
imagination of dislocated time and space.
