Poja-Gi: Diasporic Gestures
Artist in Residency (AIR – A. Wilfrid Johns Gallery, Faculty of Education, UVIC, Victoria, 2024.02.26-03.04)
kimura byol lemoine
Artist Residency* at UVic’s A. Wilfrid Johns Gallery
MacLaurin Building, A-Wing (lower level)
February 26 – March 3, 2024
10am – 4pm
Artist Talk: Saturday March 2, 2pm – 3pm
*This residency is part of Artistic approaches to anti-racism and anti-oppression: Artists and university students engaging in transformative action in a campus gallery, a research project conducted by Natasha S. Reid, Natalie LeBlanc, and Michelle Wiebe.
POJAGI refers to an assembly of leftover fabrics – a type of traditional Korean patchwork. This title is a play on words, referring to diasporic histories and to the gestures that are unconsciously or consciously learned in new territories of emigration. kimura byol lemoine invites publics to visit zer and talk about their diasporic realities.
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