Upcoming Exhibitions

Jin-me Yoon: Unbidden
1 December 2006 – 9 April 2007
CMCP Main level

This exhibition consists of a major new installation by artist Jin-me Yoon and marks the first solo tour of her work. The installation uses staged video performances and photographs to explore the relationship between memory, identity, and place, and examine the displacement of peoples, both spatially and temporally, through wars and exile. “Unbidden” refers to images and memories of uncertain origin that involuntarily surface to consciousness. Yoon presents the viewer with scenarios that are both strange and familiar; it is uncertain if the actions that occur allude to real events or whether they derive from television programs, Hollywood movies, or archival images. Using a multilayered approach, the artist investigates the power of all types of media images and their lasting effect on our individual and collective consciousness, and addresses the ambient fear that informs much of post 9/11 life.

Organized and circulated by the Kamloops Art Gallery.
Guest curator Susan Edelstein.

Persona: From the Collection
1 December 2006 – 9 April 2007
CMCP Main level

Persona: From the Collection explores contemporary ideas of self-portraiture in the works of General Idea, Leesa Streifler, Rafael Goldchain, Shelley Niro, Rosalie Favell, and Rebecca Belmore. Instead of using the photograph to present a single and static depiction of self, these artists take on various guises in order to examine the relation between identity and larger social and cultural concerns. Organized in conjunction with the exhibition Jin-me Yoon: Unbidden.