"AYOUNG KIM: SYNTAX AND SORCERY" Installation view. ©Gallery HyundaiGallery Hyundai presents a solo exhibition SYNTAX AND SORCERY by Ayoung Kim (b. 1979), through September 14.
Kim works on various media, such as video, virtual reality (VR), sound, performance, and text, to create a speculative fictional world or a new myth with various narratives. Her multidimensional stories are built through intensive data collection and research that suggest the possibility of a life in which people, nature, and objects coexist. Her works with such a creative imagination have been showcased at major international biennales and domestic/foreign institutions such as the Venice Biennale, Asian Art Biennale, Gwangju Biennale, Busan Biennale, Palais de Tokyo, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, and Leeum Museum of Art.
While Kim has mostly dealt with different contemporary refugee issues in the past, SYNTAX AND SORCERY at Gallery Hyundai will present a fictional story based on delivery riders that represent the emigration of contemporary subjects governed by app algorithms. Through her works, Kim deconstructs and subverts the reality that exists behind social beliefs in a new and unfamiliar way.
