In keeping with her family history, Ayoung Kim has carried out extensive research on a fossil energy that has become a central motif of modernity and globalisation: oil. She recounts the development of the oil industry in the Middle East in her work, Zepheth, Whale Oil From the Hanging Gardens to You, Shell 3, presented in the main exhibition of the 56th Venice Biennale (All the World’s Futures, curator Okwui Enwezor, 2015).
Curator : Chloé Fricout
Event organised in the framework of the 2015-2016 France-Korea Year with the support of l’Institut français / www.anneefrancecoree.com. This exhibition benefits from the support of Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM) of Institut nat ional de l’audiovisuel.