Jinny Yu, Shohini Ghose and Ming Tiampo in Conversation

Artist Jinny Yu, curator and professor of art history Ming Tiampo, and quantum physicist Shohini Ghose enjoyed a conversation about relativity, perception, and how the work of an artist and a scientist can overlap. Moderated by  Georgiana Uhlyarik, Fredrik S. Eaton Curator of Canadian Art, AGO. 

The event also marked the launch of a bilingual 120-page monographic catalogue on Yu’s work, featuring essays by Patrick Flores, Ming Tiampo and Uhlyarik, and a foreword by Marie-Eve Beaupré, available for purchase at shopAGO. 

Studio visit with Jinny Yu: Hôte

The Korean Cultural Centre is pleased to present the Virtual Artist Studio Visit series. Due to the prevailing pandemic situation for the past year, artists were removed from their familiar places to present their works when many exhibition spaces were forced to close with no clear idea on when to reopen while exhibition visitors also lost opportunities to meet their favourite artists and be enlightened by their unique perspectives which can be a guiding light in this unprecedented time of isolation. Considering that social distancing is still an important parameter to overcome the COVID 19 pandemic, the KCC has prepared a series of virtual artist studio visits that can connect artists with their audiences safely from home. As the first season of the program, we invite prominent Korean Canadian artists to show us how they spend their stay-at-home time and what kind of new works they are envisioning and visualizing. This program is planned to introduce a new episode on the last Thursday of each month. Our second episode is a tour to the internationally recognized Canadian artist Jinny Yu’s studio in Ottawa.

Ming Tiampo and Jinny Yu: Don't They Ever Stop Migrating?

Dr. Ming Tiampo discusses Jinny Yu’s Don’t They Ever Stop Migrating on Clocktower Radio

Dr. Ming Tiampo, Professor of Art History at Carleton University and co-curator of the 2013 Guggenheim exhibition, Gutai: Splendid Playground, interviews Korean-born artist Jinny Yu about her site-specific installation Don’t They Ever Stop Migrating?, a large three-dimensional painting with sound.

Inspired in the city of Venice and exhibited there at the Oratorio di San Ludovico from September 5 – November 22, 2015, the installation reflects on the migration crises in the Mediterranean Sea and Bay of Bengal--equally relevant in the United States--and explores a range of emotional responses and attitudes towards mass migration in the globalized world.

Don't They Ever Stop Migrating? mirrors Venice’s history as a place of cultural collision, of departure and arrival. A white three-dimensional painting surrounds the audience, broken up by hundreds of thousands of black ink brushstrokes that cover the structure in a vortex. From the accompanying chorus of incoherent English words and abstracted human voices, phrases emerge, remixed, layered, repeated, and interrupted by silences, suggesting an imminent threat that implicates the viewer in the common response of animosity and suspicion towards migrants--a response that usually arises from a fear of an invading “other.”

This exhibition is produced by Nuova Icona and supported by Ottawa Art Gallery.