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

Jin-me Yoon is an important Canadian lens-based artist who has been working steadily since emerging on Vancouvers contemporary art scene in the 1990s. Produced in tandem with a major exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 2022,About Timefocuses on Yoons 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 Yoons 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 Coasts stunning natural landscapes.

Published in conjunction with the exhibitionJin-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 Zo ChanandDiana Freundl
ContributionsbyTarah Hogue,Sharon Kahanoff,Susette Min,Anne-Marie St-Jean-Aubre,Ming Tiampo, andDiana Freundl

208pages
7 x 9.75inches
100colour illustrations
ISBN 9783777439983
Hardcover
Hirmer Publishers and the Vancouver Art Gallery
2022