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Christine Sun Kim: Bounce Back

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ICA LA is pleased to present a new large-scale mural commissioned for the museum’s façade by the Berlin-based American artist Christine Sun Kim (b. 1980, Orange County, CA). Working across the mediums of drawing, performance, experimental sound, video, and large-scale murals, Kim’s work engages with the limits and possibilities of language—be it spoken, signed, or scripted. Often referencing musical scores, infographics, and emojis, her singular visual lexicon brings together sarcastic humor and incisive critique to illuminate the systems of power and ideology embedded in oral communications and investigate the complex realities of Deaf culture.

Titled Bounce Back (2023), this new site-specific mural builds on Kim’s recent body of work that focuses on debt—signed in ASL by one index finger tapping the open palm of the other. Depending on elements such as the directionality of the open palm, the force of the finger’s impact, and other non-manual cues like facial and bodily expression, one sign can carry multiple meanings. In this case, the word for “debt” can take on various nuances that indicate the type, severity, or urgency of the debt, or even allow the sign to slip into adjacent meanings like “owe” or “afford.” Creating her own kind of ASL notation, Kim makes reference to the tapping finger through the traces of its movements, incorporating into the drawing a double bouncing line reminiscent of those used in old cartoons or comic books to indicate motion. Moving from hand to hand, the bouncing lines underscore the relational aspect of debt, asking the viewer to examine what exactly is owed? And to whom? Offering a poignant meditation on systemic inequity and shared experience under debt, Kim’s mural asks us to consider our collective responsibility in contributing to the layers of financial, historical, social, and emotional debt that structure and define everyday life.

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Installation view, Christine Sun Kim: Bounce Back, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, February 11–September 15, 2023. Photo: Jeff McLane/ICA LA
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February 18, 2023, 3 PM - 4:30 PM
March 11, 2023, 3 PM - 4:30 PM
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Christine Sun Kim: Bounce Back is organized by Amanda Sroka, Senior Curator, with Caroline Ellen Liou, Curatorial Assistant.

Major support for Christine Sun Kim: Bounce Back is provided by Palatine Capital Partners.

ICA LA is supported by the Curator’s Council and Fieldwork Council.

Christine Sun Kim (b. 1980, Orange County, CA) is an American artist based in Berlin. Kim’s practice considers how sound operates in society, deconstructing the politics of sound and exploring how oral languages operate as social currency. Musical notation, written language, infographics, American Sign Language (ASL), the use of the body, and strategically deployed humor are all recurring elements in her practice. Working across drawing, performance, video and large-scale murals, Kim explores her relationship to spoken languages, to her built and social environments, and to the world at large. Kim has exhibited and performed internationally, including at the Queens Museum, New York (2022); the Drawing Center, New York (2022); the Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt (2021); MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge (2020); Whitney Biennial, New York (2019); Art Institute of Chicago (2018); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2017); Berlin Biennale (2016); Shanghai Biennale (2016); and the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2013), among others, with works held in numerous prominent collections. Kim is an inaugural awardee of the Ford and Mellon Foundations’ Disabilities Future Fellowship, a TED Senior Fellowship, an MIT Media Lab Fellowship, and the 2022 Prix International d’Art Contemporain of the Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco. She is represented by François Ghebaly, Los Angeles and White Space Beijing.

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