Jin-Me Yoon: About Time - Zoë Chan, Diana Freundl

Publication date: December 15, 2022

Description (english will follow)

The first major publication devoted to Jin-me Yoon's work.

Jin-me Yoon is a prominent Canadian artist whose primary medium is photography. She has worked and produced consistently since emerging on the Vancouver contemporary art scene in the 1990s. Produced in tandem with a major exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 2022, About Time focuses on Yoon’s monumental and multifaceted output from the 2010s, which typically combines photography, video, performance, and installation. Yoon engages with subjects of diasporic experience, colonialism, imperialism, and militarism with an increasingly politicized awareness of what it means to live and work as a diasporic artist on land stolen from Indigenous peoples. Characterized by a restrained poetic style, the use of slowness and repetition, and the sensory use of sound, Yoon’s body of work is underpinned by a strong environmentalist thrust. This mature phase of her work includes cinematic tableaux of individuals embedded in the breathtaking natural landscapes of the Pacific coast. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Jin-me Yoon: About Time , organized by the Vancouver Art Gallery, curated by Diana Freundl, Interim Chief Curator/Associate Director, and presented from October 15, 2022 to March 5, 2023.

Edited by Zoë Chan and Diana Freundl

Contributions from Tarah Hogue, Sharon Kahanoff, Susette Min, Anne-Marie St-Jean-Aubre, Ming Tiampo, and Diana Freundl

The first significant publication devoted to the work of Jin-me Yoon, one of Canada's most preeminent artists.

Jin-me Yoon is an important Canadian lens-based artist who has been working continuously since emerging on Vancouver's contemporary art scene in the 1990s. Produced in tandem with a major exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 2022, About Time focuses on Yoon's monumental and multifaceted production during the 2010s, which typically combines photography, video, performance, and installation. In these layered works, Yoon addresses the subject matter of diasporic experience, colonialism, imperialism, and militarism, but with an increasingly politicized awareness of what it means to live and work as a diasporic artist on land stolen from Indigenous peoples. Characterized by a restrained poetic style, the use of slowness and repetition, and the sensory use of sound, this period in Yoon's corpus is undergirded by a strong environmentalist thrust. Recurring tropes of this mature phase of her work include cinematic tableaux of individuals integrated within the Pacific West Coast's stunning natural landscapes.

Published in conjunction with the exhibition Jin-me Yoon: About Time , organized by the Vancouver Art Gallery, curated by Diana Freundl, Interim Chief Curator/Associate Director, and presented October 15, 2022 to March 5, 2023.

Edited by Zoë Chan and Diana Freundl

Contributions by Tarah Hogue, Sharon Kahanoff, Susette Min, Anne-Marie St-Jean-Aubre, Ming Tiampo, and Diana Freundl

208 pages

7.1 inches by 10.2 inches (18.7 cm X 25.7 cm)

German binding, hard cover

Texts in English, French and Korean

Legal deposit: 2022

ISBN 978-1-927656-57-0 (Vancouver Art Gallery)

ISBN 978-3-7774-3998-3 (Hirmer Publishers)