Yoko Takashima Sylvie Fortin Yoko Takashima
Yoko Takashima, view of the video installation Islands Burning, 1998
Opening on Wednesday, February 25, at 4 pm
Curator: Sylvie Fortin
The artist in presenting a new multimedia installation nourished by her enchantment for liberating gestures.
“I am fascinated by the banal tasks we perform daily, like brushing our teeth or combing our hair… Like repetitive movements people perform when mediating, these actions free our mind to wander.” Y.T.
Yoko Takashima, view of the video installation Islands Burning, 1998
Born in Japan, in 1961, Yoko Takashima currently lives and works in Victoria, B.C. She holds a B.F.A. from the University of Lethbridge and a M.F.A. from the University of Victoria. Since 1992, her work has been featured in important Canadian and international group exhibitions as well as solo exhibitions such as Conceal/Reveal, SITE Santa Fe, Topographies: Aspect of Recent B.C. Art, held at the Vancouver Art Gallery, and Bonn Videonale 7 in Bonn, Germany.
Sylvie Fortin is Curator of Contemporary Art at the Ottawa Art Gallery since 1996. She has curated a number of exhibitions, among the most recent: Rob Thompson: Dark Ages, Mike MacDonald: Touched by the Tears of a Butterfly and The Night Has a Thousand Eyes, featuring the work of Keith Piper and Ramona Ramlochand. She has written catalogue essays for Canadian, American and European publications and reviews for Parachute, Parallelogramme, Etc Montréal, Inter, Matriart amd Espace. She is also a Contributing Editor of Fuse.