{"id":196,"date":"2026-07-20T19:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T17:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/contourbiennale.org\/?post_type=artist&#038;p=196"},"modified":"2026-08-06T18:46:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T16:46:06","slug":"ayoung-kim","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/contourbiennale.org\/nl\/artist\/ayoung-kim\/","title":{"rendered":"Ayoung Kim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ayoung Kim werkt met video, bewegend beeld, virtual reality, gamesimulaties, performance, geluid en tekst. Ze combineert speculatieve fictie met historische feiten, geopolitiek en mythe, en verbindt zo geografie\u00ebn en tijdschalen die ver uit elkaar liggen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Al-Mather Plot 1991<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> draait rond het Al-Mather Housing Complex in Riyad, gebouwd door het Koreaanse bedrijf Hanyang in een periode waarin veel Zuid-Koreaanse arbeiders naar de Golfregio trokken. Het complex was bedoeld als grootschalig woonproject, maar stond jarenlang leeg tot de Golfoorlog uitbrak en het een toevluchtsoord werd voor Koeweiti&#8217;s. Kim verweeft de geopolitiek van olie met de ervaringen van haar vader, die als Koreaanse arbeidsmigrant in de regio werkte. Zo ontstaat een gelaagd portret van het complex als een plek waar migratie, oorlog, petro-kapitalisme en persoonlijke herinnering in elkaar overvloeien.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">De film combineert live-action beelden, generatieve AI, game-engine-animaties, archieffoto&#8217;s en veldopnames die Kim tijdens tien jaar onderzoek verzamelde. Daarmee monteert ze fragmenten van geschiedenis en geheugen digitaal opnieuw \u2013 en verschijnt olie niet alleen als economische kracht, maar als een voorouderlijk weefsel dat landen, lichamen en geschiedenissen met elkaar verbindt.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":192,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-196","artist","type-artist","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ayoung Kim - Contour Biennale 11<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/contourbiennale.org\/artist\/ayoung-kim\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"nl_NL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ayoung Kim - Contour Biennale 11\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ayoung Kim werkt met video, bewegend beeld, virtual reality, gamesimulaties, performance, geluid en tekst. 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