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Jin-me Yoon
In Untunnelling Vision (2020), a photography and video installation, viewers are immersed in an apocalyptic landscape. The Canadian Armed Forces leased some of the land of the Tsuut’ina Nation and contaminated it while conducting “war games” over a ninety-year period. This same land was later used as the backdrop for the Canadian war film Passchendaele (2008). The movie’s producer…
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Chun Hua Catherine Dong: Choosing Resilience
Dressed in matching camo pants, t-shirt and cap, Chun Hua Catherine Dong’s face is entirely covered in deer hide she has painstakingly glued onto her face prior to the performance. Over the course of 2.5 hours, the China-born and Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal-based artist sits atop a bright yellow scaffolding, towering over the audience of the Harold J.…
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Zinnia Naqvi
Zinnia Naqvi’s practice is permeated by familial archives, intergenerational dialogues, and politics of belonging. Principally lens-based, her work presents images that speak to the intimacy inherent to cherished family archives, as well as the embedded values that it represents. Past and Present II (2012 – 15) is a photographic series that explores the intergenerational identity construction of migrant families.…