Ayoung Kim Searches for Lost Time in 'Delivery Dancer’s Arc: Inverse'
The artist makes sense of space and time in ACC Future Prize Exhibition.
Following the announcement and inaugural exhibition of the Asia Culture Center (ACC) Future Prize recipient, the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism presents a new solo exhibition by Ayoung Kim. Delivery Dancer’s Arc: Inverse broadens Kim’s foray into science fiction, futurism, and archaeology in a multi-channel video and sculptural project.
For this large-scale installation, Kim constructs a calendar marker, ticking with mathematical movements, to establish a new rhythm of time. At the center of the exhibition hall sits a three-sided screen that invites onlookers into a virtual world of LED and rubble. Made with generative AI, the artist keenly conjures futurity in both form and focus.
The show will expand on the Delivery Dancer’s prequels, as the protagonists find themselves in a clash of space and time. Inverse honors forgotten calendar systems in the face of the global standard. Through the lens of time, Kim reflects on the complex relationship between tradition and modernity. She searches for unique philosophies that have been lost in the “narrative of contemporary art”, making room for many worlds.
The ACC Prize reflects an effort to comprehend contemporary issues and usher a new era of expansive imagination in art. Embodying this mission, Kim approaches modernity with friction and nuance, bearing witness to the animacy of future tense.
Delivery Dancer’s Arc: Inverse is now on view at the National Asian Culture Center in Gwangju until February 16, 2025. A prequel, Delivery Dancer’s Sphere, will be included at the Ewha Media Art Presentation x Frieze program in Seoul through September 6, 2024.
National Asian Culture Center
38 Munhwajeondang-ro
Dong-gu, Gwangju
South Korea
Ehwa Womans University
03760 52 Ewhayeodae-gil,
Seodaemun-gu, Seoul
South Korea
