Christine Sun Kim: All Day All Night

Feb 8–Sept 28, 2025

Exhibition works

17 total
Future Base, 2016
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Future Base, 2016

Art gallery with musical staff lines and notes painted on walls, featuring framed abstract drawings arranged in a grid on a wooden floor.
Art gallery with musical staff lines and notes painted on walls, featuring framed abstract drawings arranged in a grid on a wooden floor.

Installation view of Christine Sun Kim: All Day All Night (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, February 8-July 6, 2025). Mural: Ghost(ed) Notes, 2024 (re-created 2025). On wall, clockwise from top left: Future Tells Bad Knock-Knock Jokes, 2016; Hockney Future, 2016; Future with White Privileges, 2016; Future with Certified Sign Language Interpreters, 2016; Good Grief Future, 2016; Future Does the Biles, 2016; Future Gets Sleepy, 2016; Futurist Future, 2016; Denim Future, 2016; Future Attempts to Hearsplain, 2016; Future Attempts to Deafsplain, 2016; No Future, 2016; Rhyme Pattern Future, 2016; Future Gets High on Caffeine, 2016; McFuture, 2016; Too Much Future, 2016; Future Gets Paranoid, 2016; Future with Sound Privileges, 2016; Kapoor Future, 2016; Future Schmuture, 2016. Photograph by Ron Amstutz

Future Base, 2016

In the twenty drawings that make up Future Base, Kim playfully explores the notion of the future, reframing it in ways that involve references to art, popular culture, and Deaf culture. The starting point for each work is the shape of the sign for “future” in American Sign Language, which traces two semicircles arching away from the face. Kim visualizes the hand’s trajectory in space as two curved lines, adapting it to multiple scenarios. After landing in a glass of wine, the line in Future Gets Sleepy becomes dotted. In Hockney Future, the line dives into a swimming pool, a riff on David Hockney’s 1967 painting A Bigger Splash. The lines in Future with White Privileges and Future with Sound Privileges both score a hole-in-one, critically reflecting upon inequitable access to the very idea of the future.

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