Jin-me Yoon reflects on landscape in photographic and sculptural form with the combination of two works: Untitled 10 and Carrying Fragments. In her photographic series Long Time So Long, Yoon situates humorous yet unsettling masked characters along Richmond’s Iona Island. Her expressive masks are inspired by emojis and Talchum—traditional Korean mask dances that employ humour to tell stories of social rebellion and unrest. Yoon also alludes to traditions of Korean culture that refer to relationships with nature, the living and the dead, including Korean Shamanism, Animism, Daoism and Buddhism.

Untitled 10 pictures a masked character walking along the idyllic Iona Jetty, a popular walking path that conceals a seven-and-a-half-kilometre sewage pipe. Before housing a large sewage plant, Iona Island was ancestral territory that supported 9,000 years of Musqueam history. When the plant was built in the 1950s, the BC government paid one dollar to lease a portion (in perpetuity) of the Musqueam reserve to run the pipe.

Carrying Fragments extends the photographic landscape into the Gallery space while its internal lighting components echo the blue light in Robert Rauschenberg’s sculpture selected by Yoon.

- Vancouver Art Gallery