‘Time Freed’ Film Screening and Talking Circle
Video Still of Jin-me Yoon, Time Freed (Beyond Capture), 2025, Single channel video, 4K, 1.85, Stereo,12:39 min loop
About
Join artist Jin-me Yoon and artistic collaborators Chas Coutlee, Elaine Smith, and Jacquie Nicole as they introduce and screen ‘Time Freed (Beyond Capture)’, created with support from The Circle Project.
The Circle Project was created in 2019 by filmmaker Brenda Longfellow and restorative justice advocate Brenda Morrison, as an evolving collaboration of artists and people with lived experience of incarceration dedicated to producing provocative art together.
The film screening will be followed by a Talking Circle for those who would like to engage in meaningful conversation about art, healing, and transformation.
This program is presented as a part of the Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts exhibition, opening at the MacKenzie on December 4, 2026.
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
The MacKenzie Art Gallery is proud to be the inaugural host for a new format of the Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts exhibition. Each year, a new institution across Canada will host an exhibition of work by the recipients of this prestigious award, starting here in Regina for 2025.
The exhibition will feature the work of eight artists and curators who have helped to shape the Canadian art landscape over the course of their exceptional careers and will include artworks and curatorial projects by each of the 2025 winners intended to highlight key elements of each laureate’s creative practice.
Artists like Clive Robertson and Bruce LaBruce have expanded beyond the bounds of the visual arts world. Robertson has had a profound impact on artist-centred publishing, while LaBruce has left an indelible mark on contemporary Queer film in Canada and Europe. Daina Augaitis, the sole curator recognized this year, is known for scholarship and mentorship enacted through sustained engagement with artists. Artists Kent Monkman and Jin-me Yoon are both admired for their now iconic works featuring variations on their own likenesses. Both Yoon and Monkman question the bond between place and identity with humour and historical context. Thaddeus Holownia and Peter Pierobon, working at either side of the country, both respond to their natural surroundings. Pierobon often works with natural materials found in British Columbia, while Holownia traces the built environment and avian life near his home in New Brunswick. Sandra Rodriguez’s practice has been path-breaking in the world of digital art, bringing creative digital innovations within Canada to international attention. Rodriguez has embraced and imbued new technologies with her own creative force.
By looking back at the long trajectory of the award winners’ careers, we celebrate the dedication that each winner’s practice represents and look ahead to where their work may take them next.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Jin-me Yoon is a Korea-born, Vancouver-based artist whose work explores the entangled relations of tourism, militarism, and colonialism. Since the early 1990s, she has used photography, video, and performance to situate her personal experience of migration in relation to unfolding historical, political, and ecological conditions. Through experimental cinematography and the performative gestures of family, friends, and community members, Yoon reconnects repressed pasts with damaged presents, creating the conditions for different futures. Staging her work in charged landscapes, Yoon finds specific points of reference across multiple geopolitical contexts. In so doing, she brings worlds together, affirming the value of difference.
Over the last three decades, Jin-me Yoon’s work has been presented internationally in hundreds of exhibitions, and she has mentored many students over the years while teaching at Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts. In 2018, she was elected as a Fellow into the Royal Society of Canada; and in 2022, she was awarded the prestigious Scotiabank Photography Award.