Group Exhibition Dislocations

Artists
  • Jin-me Yoon
  • Mona Kamal
  • Meral Pasha
  • Annie Sakkab
  • Brett Gundlock
  • Jamelie Hassan
  • Khadija Baker

Dislocations brings together artists who explore the tenuous relationship between identity and place, and who investigate how movement has become a mode of being in the world during an era of globalization. The month-long exhibition will feature established and emerging artists from Toronto, Calgary, and Vancouver, and highlight their aesthetic engagements with cultural dislocation. Artists Annie Sakkab, Meral Pasha, Mona Kamal, Jin-me Yoon, Brett Gundlock and Jamelie Hassan consider how we negotiate a place for ourselves from one social environment to another. They examine what travels with us across personal, political, and social borders during different kinds of migratory trajectories, and what we leave behind. As discussions on place and identity have shifted towards more fluid understandings, these artists engage with particular kinds of uprootings and regroundings that are embodied and specific. Their work articulates a sense of self which is gendered and cultured, and explores how visual culture informs the way we see ourselves in the world, as well as how others situate us in it.

Curated by Sevan Injejikian and Annie Sakkab

Jin-me Yoon’s work has been presented in over 200 exhibitions across North America, Asia, and Australia, as well as select institutions worldwide over the last three decades. Most recently, one of the Korean-born, Vancouver-based artist’s films screened at the Venice Biennale; her work was presented in a solo exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery; and a touring survey was organized by the Musée d’art de Joliette. Yoon is represented in 20 public and corporate collections; she received the prestigious Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship; was shortlisted for the Art Gallery of Ontario Grange Prize; and was inducted as a Fellow into the Royal Society of Canada, recognized for her research contributions in art.