Chikei Hara | "MAM Project 033: Christine Sun Kim"
Mori Art Museum's MAM Project 033 features a solo exhibition by artist Christine Sun Kim, exploring sound and communication.Summary
The Mori Art Museum's small program, "MAM Project 033," is hosting a solo exhibition by Berlin-based artist Christine Sun Kim. Kim, who is congenitally deaf, explores the possibilities of communication beyond auditory perception, focusing on sound and voice itself through drawings, videos, and installations. Her work delves into the incompleteness of language-centric communication systems, subtle gestures in conversation, and multilayered translation.
Key works include "Where the Sound Waves Ripple," an infographic-like drawing visualizing the notation of American Sign Language (ASL) movements as a visual score. Another piece, "Sighs for the Community," is a sound installation featuring layered sighs collected from 66 deaf friends, with ceramic weights on the records suggesting social pressures and discrimination faced by minority communities.
Kim attempts to visualize power structures in society through the asymmetry of communication and translation discrepancies. Her work challenges our assumptions about how communication works, creating a space that shares an attitude of accepting the authentic self outside existing social systems and opening new doors to perception.
(Source：artscape)