'I Want to Be Able to Maintain My Clear Voice': Artist Christine Sun Kim on Translating Her 2020 Into Trenchant New Drawings
Christine Sun Kim. Photo: Max Zerrahn. Courtesy of the artist and François Ghebaly, Los Angeles. Christine Sun Kim was at her extended family’s annual Christmas dinner in California last year when she snapped. The 40-year-old artist, who was born Deaf, realized she was being left out of the group’s conversation because several family members would not learn or use sign language or her texting app. It wasn’t an entirely new feeling for Kim, but in that moment, she looked over and saw her small child Roux, who is hearing, surveying the situation. Kim made a choice: She was not going to s...
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