Living Time, the two-channel video, is set on Hornby Island and explores how memory is carried in the body and passed on from generation to generation. The characters are visibly caught in different historical moments, blurring past, present and future. Through intercutting of live action and archival footage, the video explores different forms of recollection and remembrance, and nested temporalities that make time go on with no demarcations.

While the video marks time on a human level—psychically and affectively—the photographs convey it geologically. Here, photography is used to register human life in an instant. In the Living Time photographs the six diptychs portray each character as resilient yet fragile, connected yet displaced—shadowed within the landscape. Framing the lush West Coast setting with its immense trees featured prominently in each image, Jin-me Yoon presents the environment as something to be respected and revered.

- Diana Freundl, Vancouver Art Gallery