Synthetic Storyteller

The first comprehensive monograph on the exploratory practice of visual and media artist Ayoung Kim presents a selection of artworks produced between 2007 and 2022 through images and installation views, together with contributions from critical voices. Kim weaves reality anew through hybrid narratives, integrating geopolitics, mythology, technology, and futuristic iconography. Her synthesised narratives trigger far-reaching and retroactive speculation, connecting biopolitics and border controls, geological and virtual memories, and ancestral origins and imminent futures in the forms of video, virtual reality (VR), game simulation, sonic fiction, diagrams, and texts.