Jinny Yu (NONE)

By Jinny Yu

This catalogue raisonn by artist Jinny Yu is the first collection of Yu's paintings, covering the past ten years of her practice.

Three critical essays by Antonio Foscari, dith-Anne Pageot, and Emily Falvey explore and contextualize her work. There is a special emphasis throughout on the new series Story of a Global Nomad, exhibited in February and March 2008 at Art M r gallery, Montreal. This series explores the idea of the nomad, which echoes Yu's understanding of the artist as migratory, with the ability to shift between contexts, boundaries, and identities.

Two visual systems preside over most of the series: a patterned underlay, which appears to be static, and an overlay that appears to convolute, distort, and haphazardly foray among the structured patterns below. Story of a Global Nomad is an invocation of the problematic nature of definition within a universal narrative. Ultimately, nomadism must understand itself within a system, and therefore is no more outside, or inside, a place than another. Adapted from a text by Michael Rattray.

Published in English.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 2923243013
• ISBN13: 9782923243016
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: University of Ottawa Press/Les Presses de l'Universite d'Ottawa
• Length: 60 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.5" x 1.2" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 15 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 10 to 12