Image: National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul has highlighted ‘Delivery Dancer’s Line: Inverse’ (2024), a work by Ayoung Kim that expands her ‘Delivery Dancer’ series. The piece is presented as a contemporary installation combining moving image, light, sculpture and object-based elements.
According to the museum’s material, the work explores traditional time systems and cosmologies drawn from diverse cultures. It focuses on forms of knowledge that have been marginalized or disappeared during modernization, placing those histories at the center of Kim’s visual and spatial approach.
‘Delivery Dancer’s Line: Inverse’ is built as a multi-part installation rather than a single-screen video work. The piece includes a three-channel video, lighting installations, a sundial sculpture, circular screens and additional objects, with each component contributing to the work’s overall environment.
Kim’s ‘Delivery Dancer’ series provides the framework for the new work, and ‘Inverse’ extends that project into a broader meditation on time, measurement and systems of cultural memory. The museum’s description places emphasis on the relationship between technological presentation and historical inquiry, with the installation format allowing these themes to unfold across image, light and sculptural elements.
MMCA Seoul’s presentation identifies the work as part of Kim’s ongoing artistic development, but the source material does not provide additional exhibition scheduling or venue-specific programming details. The available information centers on the content and structure of the work itself rather than on an accompanying show format.
With its mix of video, lighting, a sundial and circular screens, ‘Delivery Dancer’s Line: Inverse’ positions time not only as a subject but as a visual and spatial system. The work’s elements are arranged to reflect the artist’s interest in cosmologies and temporal structures that modern history has overlooked.
