Ayoung Kim
PROJECT
Ayoung Kim’s Delivery Dancer series traces the story of two female couriers, Ernst Mo and En Storm. As they perform endless delivery work on algorithmically generated routes, they encounter cascading time delays in a futuristic version of Seoul. Described by Kim as ‘pandemic fiction’, the series explores how data-driven systems have reshaped labour, bodies and environments amid the pressures of late-stage capitalism. In Delivery Dancer’s Arc: Inverse, the protagonists descend into Novaria, a fictional subterranean world where ancient and modern calendars collide. Built using AI, CGI and game engines, Delivery Dancer’s Arc: Inverse probes how technology reshapes time, space and human connection in an era defined by acceleration, optimisation and continuous demand.
Commissioned by ACC Future Prize. Courtesy of the artist
ABOUT
An artist on the vanguard of digital innovation, Ayoung Kim uses generative AI, videogame engines and live-action footage to create narratives where, according to Kim, ‘hybrid fictions, integrating geopolitics, biopolitics, mythology, technology and technoprecarity’ collide.
Kim’s work has been presented at major international institutions and biennials, including M+, Hong Kong; Tate Modern, London (UK); Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (Germany); Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (Japan); the Museum of Modern Art, New York (US); the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul (Korea); and the 56th Venice Biennale (Italy), among others. She has received significant accolades, including the LG Guggenheim Award (2025), the ACC Future Prize (2024) and the Golden Nica Award at Prix Ars Electronica (2023). Her work is held in leading public collections worldwide, including Tate (UK), the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (South Korea), Sharjah Art Foundation (UAE) and Frac Lorraine (France).