Artist Talk with Bomi Yook

In this talk, artist Bomi Yook will discuss her practice and the ideas and processes behind her exhibition "K‑DIALECTIC." Drawing from archival research and experimental photographic methods Bomi 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 also 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. In her ongoing research on Japanese colonization and intergenerational memory, Yook has collaborated with prominent museums, archives, and activist groups, including the War and Women’s Human Rights Museum, Justice Memory Solidarity Foundation, National Museum of Forced Mobilization History, National Foundation for Victims of Forced Mobilization, and the Civic Museum of Japanese Colonial History.