Abstracts
Abstract
A product of Yoon's continuing engagement with landscapes characterized by "condensed" meanings and connotations, this project places representations of the tourist destination of Prince Edward Island and its associations of "home" and universal "homeland" within an international, post-colonial context. A Vancouver-based artist of Korean background, Yoon intervenes in images of landscape, employing the tourism aesthetic itself to take apart this representation and make visible its veneers. As she manipulates myths of "Islandness" to reveal their exclusions, in the space that appears between surface and reality she also reveals the potential remaking of memories, traditions, and cultural identities for a diversity of social subjects.