Jin-Me Yoon: Touring Home From Away

Curated by: Annette Hurtig

During a residency . . . in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, during the summer of 1998, I researched and produced photographic images that explore the ways in which myths are manifest in the tourist imaginary of PEI. Utilizing sites with recognizable and “condensed” meanings, (rural landscapes, lighthouses, red soil, churches, Green Gables, strip malls, and golf courses, etc.), I placed myself and members of my extended family, along with Island residents, in various locations, staging images of the landscape that highlight the constructed nature, of place and its assumed identities. In "Touring Home From Away" (1999), by re-working the repositories of meaning embedded in the idea of PEI, I continue an ongoing interest in exploring the cultural function of landscape and representations of place as they pertain to the body and subjectivity

—Jin-me Yoon

 

A catalogue was published by Presentation House Gallery in conjunction with the exhibition, with text by Shayna McCade and Annette Hurtig.

Gallery Press Release
Events

Saturday, January 5, 2pm at Presentation House Gallery | An informal discussion with Jin-me Yoon and curator Annette Hurtig, followed by a reception for the artist


Touring Home From Away exhibition publication
Touring Home From Away exhibition publication
Touring Home From Away, Gallery Invitation - front
Gallery Invitation - front
Touring Home from Away, Gallery Invitation - back
Gallery Invitation - back