Artwork

Hey You, Ya You! (Jimmie Yoo)

Artist/Creator: Jin-Me Yoon (Artist)
Date: 1991/2016
ID #: BG5403

Physical Description

Medium: gelatin silver print
Support: paper
Dimensions: 42 cm 36 cm 2.6 cm (Frame)
Object Description: Jin-Me Yoon revisited her film negative archive to produce Hey You, Ya You! (Jimmie Yoo), a set of prints originally shot in 1991 on colour 2¼” film. Bridging nearly three decades of Yoon’s artistic practice, the work testifies to the artist’s sustained investment in notions of performativity involving the intersubjective formation of identities and the apparatus of the camera. Hey You, Ya You! (Jimmie Yoo) depicts one of Yoon’s alter egos: a rugged man of ambiguous identity who points at the viewer in a gesture of interpellation. This concept, borrowed from Althusser, proposes that social, political and historical circumstances produce subjects who are “always-already” implicated in institutional structures of identity formation rather than being self-produced. By revisiting Hey You, Ya You! (Jimmie Yoo), Yoon returns to her early photographic practice and a period of her life (the mid-1980s and early 1990s) that was foundational in her development as an artist and member of the Vancouver artistic community.

History

Collection: Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery Permanent Collection
Credit Line: Purchased with support from members of the Belkin Curator's Forum, 2017
Related Exhibitions: Beginning with the Seventies: Radial Change

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