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Christine Sun Kim's Queens Museum Mural for The New York Times

Christine Sun Kim's Queens Museum Mural for The New York Times

Julia Bozzone

At the Queens Museum, a Massive New Mural Inspired by Sign Language

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A Mural for the Moment

Christine Sun Kim’s “Time Owes Me Rest Again” (2022).Credit...Hai Zhang

By Julia Bozzone

“It seems like everyday life is getting more and more brutal,” says the Berlin-based American artist Christine Sun Kim. Indeed, she conceived of her new 100-foot mural, “Time Owes Me Rest Again” (2022), while mulling the Covid-19 crisis, rampant inequality, environmental collapse and the crushing effects of capitalism. The installation, which just opened at the Queens Museum in New York, consists of black-and-white graphic renderings of the American Sign Language hand motions for the five words in the piece’s title — all of which require the signer’s hands to come into contact with another part of the body — alongside those same words printed in English. Kim, who is Deaf, is interested in exploring multisensory ways of depicting sound and in helping Deaf existence penetrate hearing culture. Though she didn’t originally intend for the markings to resemble shooting stars, clouds and rainbows, she’s pleased that they do and describes the work as “a score disguised as a series of shapes.” As for the title phrase itself, Kim, who is a mother of one, was struck by how her American friends work long hours, sometimes at more than one job, and never feel relaxed in their roles as parents. “Time is made to be a luxury,” she says. “But, ideally, it shouldn’t be.” queensmuseum.org

Read online here. Published at tmagazine.com on March 19, 2022.

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