Christine Sun Kim has been selected as this year’s artist for “MCCA x LG OLED,” an annual collaborative series between Seoul’s National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA) and LG Electronics. Launched in 2025, the program commissions large-scale, site-specific works that use LG’s organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display technology to transform MMCA’s central exhibition space, Seoul Box, into an environment where art and cutting-edge screen media converge.

Drawing on her lived experiences as a Deaf artist, Kim’s work is centered on the politics of sound. Often engaging with musical notation and American Sign Language (ASL), her practice spans drawing, video, installation, and sculpture, and is imbued with social criticism and humor. For her forthcoming MCCA presentation, Kim will create a monumental animated video installation that transcribes ASL through her self-developed graphic notation system—a composition method that utilizes unconventional shapes and symbols inspired by motion lines in cartoons and comic books to convey sound and movement. The work will explore today’s increasingly discordant political climate, reflecting in particular on the futility of communication in the digital age, which the artist has likened to “the sensation of arguing with a rock.”

Speaking with The Korea Times, MMCA director Kim Sung-hee stated that Kim’s works “propose a clear thematic inquiry into the relationship between language and society in a way that is most amusing and open to multilayered interpretation.”

Slated to open on July 31, Kim’s presentation will be on view during Seoul Art Week in September.

Aisha Traub Chan is an editorial intern at ArtAsiaPacific.