The Book of Jests

September 11 – October 11, 2014
Exhibition, Artist Talk

About the Program

In The Book of Jests, Vancouver-based artist HyungMin Yoon presents a series of images that draws from an obscure collection of marginal religious illustrations by Albrecht Dürer. Originally used to surround religious texts, HyungMin Yoon reimagines their placement and purpose by framing them around contemporary political jokes of various cultures in their original languages. This challenging combination strikes a balance between different historical and contemporary modes of ideology; the popular and the religious; and the individual and the state. The opening reception was associated with SWARM, an annual festival of artist-run centres.

September 27, 2014: An artist talk was presented as part of BC Culture Days

Artist

HyungMin Yoon

Identifier

2014.0911 THE

Collection

grunt gallery Programming Archive

Location

grunt gallery (second location)
116-350 E. 2nd Ave, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V5T 4R8
Unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ/selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations

In copyright. For uses beyond Fair Dealing, research requests, corrections, takedown requests, or other inquiries, please contact grunt gallery: archives@grunt.ca