University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies Alan Toff lecture:
Generational Echoes presented by Emma Nishimura
Tuesday, June 20 · 12 - 1pm EDT
Leslie Dan Pharmacy Building, Room PM 150
144 College Street Toronto, ON M5S 3M2Free Admission
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About Emma Nishimura
For the past decade, Emma’s research and art practice has focused on the experiences her family and thousands of other Japanese Canadians endured throughout their forced incarceration during the Second World War. Her work explores this history and the reverberations these experiences have had throughout the subsequent generations.
Emma has exhibited nationally and internationally. Her work is in a number of public and private collections, including the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Royal Ontario Museum, the Japanese Canadian National Museum and the Library of Congress.
She is the recipient of the Queen Sonja Print Award 2018. Emma received her MFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and her BA from the University of Guelph. Emma is an Assistant Professor and the Chair of Photography, Printmaking and Publications at OCAD University.
About Generational Echoes
An extension of my ongoing series An Archive of Rememory, this new work draws inspiration from a traditional form of Japanese packaging known as furoshiki, in which a square of cloth or paper can wrap a gift and protect valuable objects.
In this new series, Generational Echoes, I work with photographic documentation of selected sculptural works from An Archive of Rememory. I have transformed these sculptural representations of memories into a different kind of recorded experience. These stories and memories can no longer be held, turned around, or unfolded. Only one angle, one view has been preserved. The photographic fragments that can be seen, along with the furoshikis, have now become pieces of historical evidence, markers of previous attempts to archive these stories. The prints themselves have become another generation of story.
