Artist-to-Artist: Ayoung Kim Proposed by Haegue Yang

'Ayoung Kim weaves a compelling visual commentary on our algorithm- driven reality with a uniquely focused – as well as porous – queer sensibility.' – Haegue Yang

Presented by Gallery Hyundai at Frieze London

Ayoung Kim's major video work Delivery Dancer’s Sphere features female delivery rider Ernst Mo (anagram of “monster”) who works for the company Delivery Dancer, controlled by the Dancemaster algorithm. The artist characterizes it as a “pandemic fiction” rooted in personal experience as a consumer of the gig economy that became dominant in South Korea with COVID-19. The exhibition will also materialize the world of Delivery Dancer’s Sphere – Ghost Dancer with sculptures that represent the tension between alternate universe counterparts Ernst Mo and En Storm, while the Orbit Dance series visualizes fractalized multiverses.

 

Ayoung Kim

b. 1979, Korean; lives and works in Seoul

Spanning genre boundaries of video, sound, performance, fiction and text, Ayoung Kim reconstructs complex narratives grounded in research on history and contemporary issues, including Korea’s modern and contemporary history, geopolitics, transportation and supranational movements. She creates multidimensional, fluid narratives through approaches of speculative storytelling and narrativity, world-building and myth-making.

Haegue Yang

b. 1971, Korean; lives and works between Berlin and Seoul

Spanning a vast range of media–from collage to kinetic sculpture and room-scaled installations–Yang’s work links disparate histories and traditions in her distinctive visual idiom. The artist draws on a variety of craft techniques and materials, and the cultural connotations they carry: from drying racks to venetian blinds, hanji to artificial straw. Yang’s multisensory environments activate perception beyond the visual, creating immersive experiences that treat issues such as labour, migration and displacement from the oblique vantage of the aesthetic. Her recent solo exhibitions have taken place at venues including: National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (2023), S.M.A.K. – Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent (2023); Pinacoteca de São Paulo (2023); SMK – National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen (2022), MMCA, Seoul (2020); Tate St Ives (2020); MoMA – The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2019); and Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2018).

Further Information

Frieze London takes place concurrently with Frieze Masters from 11–15 October in The Regent’s Park, London.

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_{Main Image: Ayoung Kim, Delivery Dancer’s Sphere, 2022, single-channel video, 25 minutes. Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Hyundai}