About The Work
Christine Sun Kim's Echo drawing series reflects on her linguistic experiences as a Deaf American living in Germany. “My life is full of echoes,” she notes. “Almost everything is repeated to me, whether it is through captions, through body language, or through interpreters.” Messages bounce from German into English into American Sign Language, delaying and distorting as an echo against a surface. Kim takes this as a multi-level metaphor, also exploring the idea of social echo chambers. As a relatively small and close-knit social network, the Deaf community can be a kind of enclosed space, where ideas ricochet around, echoing back and forth. In each Echo Trap drawing, graphic charcoal compositions represent the ASL sign for the word echo, in which one hand strikes the palm of the other, then rebounds the other way. Christine Sun Kim: All Day All Night is the artist’s first major museum survey, and will be on view at the Whitney from February 8 to July 2025.
About Christine Sun Kim
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Work on Paper
Charcoal on paper
44.00 x 44.00 in
111.8 x 111.8 cm
Courtesy of the Artist and François Ghebaly.
About The Work
Christine Sun Kim's Echo drawing series reflects on her linguistic experiences as a Deaf American living in Germany. “My life is full of echoes,” she notes. “Almost everything is repeated to me, whether it is through captions, through body language, or through interpreters.” Messages bounce from German into English into American Sign Language, delaying and distorting as an echo against a surface. Kim takes this as a multi-level metaphor, also exploring the idea of social echo chambers. As a relatively small and close-knit social network, the Deaf community can be a kind of enclosed space, where ideas ricochet around, echoing back and forth. In each Echo Trap drawing, graphic charcoal compositions represent the ASL sign for the word echo, in which one hand strikes the palm of the other, then rebounds the other way. Christine Sun Kim: All Day All Night is the artist’s first major museum survey, and will be on view at the Whitney from February 8 to July 2025.
About Christine Sun Kim
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