Porosity Valley 2: Trickster’s Plot (2019)

Ayoung Kim

Porosity Valley 2: Trickster’s Plot
2019
2-channel video
23 minutes 4 seconds
Commissioned by the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, and SBS Foundation, Seoul, for the Korea Artist Prize 2019, with the support of the Goethe- Institut and Arts Council Korea (Arko)

Pangea Elements
2019
Digital print 280 x 184 cm
Supported by Arts Council Korea (Arko)

Crossings
2019
Single-channel video 3 minutes
Supported by Arts Council Korea (Arko)

Plot Diagram
2019
Vinyl cut print and digital print 826 x 240 cm
Supported by Arts Council Korea (Arko)

Courtesy of the artist

Overview

Centred around notions of crossings, transmissions and reversibility, Ayoung Kim’s practice builds complex, nonlinear narratives
of modern Korean history using characters that experience the transnational push and pull of technological advancement.
Porosity Valley 2: Trickster’s Plot (2019), a multimedia project, furthers her critique of the anti- Islamic perception of Yemeni refugees in South Korea as malware or viruses. Illustrating and questioning the state’s mythology of ‘pure blood’, Kim presents the incomprehensibility and sense of fiction in their displaced existence.
Also on display are graphic diagrams and portraits featuring three robed and masked anthropomorphised-like figures with uncertain identities who belie convention.

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