Ayoung Kim
Ayoung Kim weaves reality anew through a tapestry of hybrid narratives, integrating geopolitics, mythology, technology, technoprecarity, and speculative temporalities into her work. The outcomes of synthesized narratives result in far-reaching speculation, establishing connections between biopolitics and border controls, the memories of stones and virtual memories, and ancestral origins and imminent futures across various media. Her practice incorporates discourses on optical and post-optical media, performativity, game simulation, and the narrativity of fiction. Kim often depicts entities whose resistance or misalignment leaves behind strange and singular traces as they deviate from prescribed trajectories.