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SOJIN KIM AT YACTAC - OPENING TONIGHT!

A great anacronym, YACTAC stands for Young Asian Canadian Twins Artists Collective. Four artists and two sets of twins, the women of YACTAC formed a collective shortly after they completed University.

A great anacronym, YACTAC stands for Young Asian Canadian Twins Artists Collective.

Four artists and two sets of twins, the women of YACTAC formed a collective shortly after they completed University. Since then they have been responsible for over three years’ worth of experimental exhibitions and several international artist residencies at their gallery and studio space located on Ontario Street.  This isn’t your typical gallery, YACTAC Gallery exists within the living/diningroom of a large house located on a quiet residential street opposite Langara Golf Course.

It is off the beaten path, but an adventure well worth taking!

If you are looking for something new and different tonight, head over to their space and take in the work of Sojin Kim. The exhibition opens tonight at 7pm. You’ll be greeted by Justine and Janice Cheung and Peggy and Karen Ngan, and quite possibly the extremely friendly neighbourhood cat, who is a regular on the scene.

YACTAC’s mandate?... This collective is dedicated to showing the work of emerging artists like Sojin Kim. Sojin is a recent BFA graduate from Emily Carr University of Art + Design. Her work hovers within the realms of minimalist and abstract art, it also employs patterns and lines playing homage to Op-art.

Kim finds inspiration in artists who work with shape and colour: enter the likes of German painter Blinky Palermo. Sojin's show, Sunset Home at Yactac is a hybrid installation featuring painted gallery walls, fabric stretched canvases, solid blocks of vibrant colour.  Kim’s stretched patterned fabric works vibrate against the stark white walls they hang on, and next to them, the brightly coloured panels provide a high contrast and dramatic shift in focus.

Kim’s work in this exhibition references the history of art as well as the history of this unique space. Working directly on one of the primary walls of the gallery, her work interacts with the physical memory of the walls and the sentient atmosphere of the gallery space itself.  Gallery spaces are meant to be neutral, white walls that let the art be the atmosphere. Yet, it is also an impossibility for any space to be completely neutral.  For as German philosopher and physicist Gernot Böhme suggests, being in an environment affects our senses and our emotions. Each space is a synaesthetic realm unto itself. It is also an emotional realm, one where feelings of different types bind to memory as well as future projections. All of which provides context and meaning of any space.

The Yactac space is a home, a gallery, and an artist studio. It is in a non-conventional location; one can chance upon art whilst taking a walk in this quiet residential neighbourhood. It is a dynamic charged space that has been even further transformed by Kim’s patterned painting installation.

It is very fitting that this last exhibition at Yactac Gallery is an exhibition that relates to space, memory, emotion and time.

Alas the sun is setting on this special place, the end of an era, but the start of something new: Yactac will be relocating to a space on Mainstreet just off of Kingsway in the months to come.

Tonight is a great opportunity to see a space whose existence is drawing to a close. Join the YACTAC collective and Sojin Kim at their opening this evening. Experience this unique space, before it is gone.

 

Sunset Home – by Sojin Kim

Yactac Gallery - 7206 Ontario Street - Vancouver, BC, V5X 3B7

Exhibition Opening: Friday August 15, 7-11pm

Exhibition Dates: August 16 – 22, the gallery is open by appointment. - Contact: yactacgallery@gmail.com

More information about Sojin can be found here: http://sojin.ca/

To learn more about Yactac visit the gallery’s site: http://yactac.com/