Christine Sun Kim's exhibition 'All Day All Night' at the Whitney provides a career survey that highlights her unique approach to art, incorporating elements of language, music, and her experiences as a deaf individual. Kim’s works, such as 'Pianoiss . . . issmo (Worse Finish)', illustrate the intricate relationship between sound and silence. Her artistic language is minimalistic yet rich with emotional depth, provoking thought about concepts of sound in a world that often overlooks the deaf experience. This exhibition reflects on her past while anticipating the future directions of her creative journey.
As the artist shared in her Ted Talk, the p is her favorite musical symbol, explaining that one p means play a little softer, two ps means softer yet, and four ps even softer still, on and on downward, approaching silence.
Pianoiss . . . issmo (Worse Finish) gives a sense of how music, sound, language and concept function in Kim's artwork: drawing on musical notation, she finds a way of visually depicting the concept of silence.
The choice of a bright red color, and the clustering of less and less countable, tinier ps on down the tree, gives the piece a very personal, hewn feel.
A reasonable place to start with Kim is her 2012 piece Pianoiss . . . issmo (Worse Finish), which shows a series of an inverted tree of p musical notations subdividing downward into ever tinier and tinier ps.
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