Synthetic Storyteller
Ayoung Kim



In conjunction with "Delivery Dancer Codex", Artbook @ MoMA PS1 bookstore is offering the 2025 revised edition of "Ayoung Kim: Synthetic Storyteller", the first and most comprehensive monograph encompassing the artist’s eighteen-year trajectory. Pick up in-store or order at the link in bio.

The 2024 edition brought together critical essays by Wonhwa Yoon, Jinshil Lee, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Nanna Heidenreich, and Chien-Hung Huang, alongside scripts and texts by the artist herself, and a selection of works from 2007 to 2022. The new edition incorporates recent works and exhibition views, plus an updated interview with the artist. Korean and English language sections function as independent publications, joined at the center by full-page images of Kim’s works that bridge the two halves.

"Ayoung Kim: Synthetic Storyteller” | Edited by Gye Taek Gon (James Gui) | Designed by Shin Shin | The Floorplan, 2025 | Softcover | 400 pages | English, Korean 

Ayoung Kim (Korean, b. 1979), based in Seoul, works with video, virtual reality, sound, and text to create narratives that collide geopolitics, synthesize mythologies, and interrogate technologies.

$35.00