JIN-ME YOON
Other Hauntings: A Geography Beloved
Momenta | Biennale de l'image
GUEST CURATOR — AMI BARACK
Jin-me Yoon (born 1960) is a Korean artist who lives and works in Vancouver. She also teaches Visual Art at the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University. Since the early 90s, through her practice of photography, video and installation, she re-examined questions concerning history, place and the body supported by an underlying interest in how these very questions are based on entangled and interdependent relations. Her work has been exhibited across Canada as well as internationally. Among her recent solo and group exhibitions: LandMarks 2017 (Pacific Rim National Park Reserve, 2017); Photography in Canada: 1960-2000, at Canadian Photography Institute of the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa, 2017); Married by Powers, at MediaCity Seoul (2016); Rencontres improbables (The Secret Encounters of Kusama Kalthoum), at Gallery Oqbo (Berlin, 2016) and Project 35: The Last Act, organized by the Independent Curators International organism (2014). In 2013, she was awarded a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship.
The relationship between place and identity is at the heart of Jin-me Yoon’s work. In the videos Other Hauntings: A Geography Beloved (Dance) and Other Hauntings: A Geography Beloved (Song), both filmed in Gangjeong (South Korea), the artist explores the notions of history, memory, and landscape. Ten years ago, the equilibrium of this fishing village was obliterated when the South Korean government decided to build a naval base there, destroying the local sacred rocks and causing great upheaval in the village. With these pieces Yoon aims to account for this conflict without explicitly referring to it. She concentrates on the testimonies and gestures of two of the island’s inhabitants, who have become poetic symbols of resistance. She captures what the eye does not see.
MOMENTA 2017
For its 15th edition from September 7 to October 15, MOMENTA has joined forces with the curator Ami Barak, who has developed a remarkable programming around the theme What Does the Image Stand For?. The 2017 edition of MOMENTA explores the concept of photographic and videographic evidence, questioning the idea of the still and moving image as witness to the real and drawing attention to the fantastical and sublimated character of reality. The work of the 38 artists invites viewers to take a critical stance toward the testimonial value of lens-based images. The biennale comprises three segments. The first, which corresponds to the central exhibition at the headquarters (HQ), is being presented at two separate sites: Galerie de l’UQAM and VOX, centre de l’image contemporaine. The second component consists of 14 solo exhibitions surrounding the HQ. And the third is a document exhibition located at Artexte.—MOMENTA is also a vast program of public activities, talks, projections, and encounters, many opportunities to come out to meet the artists and see their works; as well a catalogue co-produced with the prestigious publishing house Kerber Verlag, which brings together texts by the curator and five authors invited to think about the question What Does the Image Stand For?.
MIX AND MATCH TOUR
A mix and match tour, combining a guided tour of the exhibition at Galerie B-312 and some satellite exhibitions, takes place on October 7 at 12 :30.
Jin-me Yoon (born 1960) is a Korean artist who lives and works in Vancouver. She also teaches Visual Art at the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University. Since the early 90s, through her practice of photography, video and installation, she re-examined questions concerning history, place and the body supported by an underlying interest in how these very questions are based on entangled and interdependent relations. Her work has been exhibited across Canada as well as internationally. Among her recent solo and group exhibitions: LandMarks 2017 (Pacific Rim National Park Reserve, 2017); Photography in Canada: 1960-2000, at Canadian Photography Institute of the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa, 2017); Married by Powers, at MediaCity Seoul (2016); Rencontres improbables (The Secret Encounters of Kusama Kalthoum), at Gallery Oqbo (Berlin, 2016) and Project 35: The Last Act, organized by the Independent Curators International organism (2014). In 2013, she was awarded a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship.