Esker Foundation

Thanks to all who came out to celebrate 🍾 our Spring/Summer Exhibitions Launch tonight!

Join us for an in conversation with Rose Bouthillier and artists Shirley Moorhouse and Zadie Xa, Saturday 23 May at 1pm.

The exhibitions continue until 23 August.

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ᐃᔨ - Eyes - Shirley Moorhouse

Realized as a collaboration between the artist and Rose Bouthillier, Guest Curator.

Zadie Xa and Benito Mayor Vallejo, "Moonlit Confessions Across Deep Sea Echoes: Your Ancestors Are Whales, and Earth Remembers Everything"

Bomi Yook: K-DIALECTIC

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OPENING FRIDAY 💃 🕺 6-9PM
ALL WELCOME

ᐃᔨ - Eyes - Shirley Moorhouse

Zadie Xa and Benito Mayor Vallejo

"Moonlit Confessions Across Deep Sea Echoes: Your Ancestors Are Whales, and Earth Remembers Everything"

Bomi Yook: K-DIALECTIC
In the Project Space

SEE YOU THERE 👀

📍Artist Talk: Bomi Yook: "K-DIALECTIC": Thursday, 28 May, 6-7pm

✒️Register at the link in our bio.

In this talk, artist Bomi Yook will discuss her practice and the ideas and processes behind her Project Space exhibition K‑DIALECTIC.

Drawing from archival research and experimental photographic methods, Yook will reflect on her “Split Photography” approach, which fragments and reconfigures historical images to explore the afterlives of Japanese colonialism in Korea. The talk will offer insight into how Yook engages with traumatic memory, historical rupture, and the tensions between visibility and erasure within her work.

Bomi Yook holds an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a BFA from Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary. Her work has shown internationally, including in Los Angeles, Seoul, Toronto, Montreal, Santa Fe, Greece, and Calgary.

Her work has been presented with the UNESCO Global Geopark of Kefalonia-Ithaca in Greece. Commissioned by the City of West Hollywood, her video art was showcased at Moving Image Media Art, a Netflix-owned public art screen on Los Angeles’s iconic Sunset Boulevard. Her work has also been featured in international festivals, including MUTEK, Montreal; CURRENTS New Media, Santa Fe; Particle/Wave, EMMEDIA, Calgary; and FICFA Acadie, Moncton. Yook is the recipient of the Emerging Digital Artist Award, the Vagner Mendonça-Whitehead New Media Caucus Award, the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Arts Creative Encouragement Award, and the Künstlerdorf Schöppingen Fellowship in Germany.