BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//PYVOBJECT//NONSGML Version 1//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:events.uid.6977@www.discovernikkei.org DTSTART:20241006T000000Z DTEND:20241027T000000Z DESCRIPTION:<span style="color: #333333\; font-family: ">Miya Turnbull\, a visual artist and mask-maker based in Halifax\, will present an array of s elf-portrait masks\, photographs and sculpture. Miya creates numerous vari ations of masks which she then expands in her use of portraiture and video performances exploring the larger themes of self-portraiture and masking. The exhibition titled “Revealed” is ironic as she displays an assortm ent of life-like photo masks which symbolize\, distort and conceal her act ual face. However\, all the artwork on display all give hints and layers o f meaning to her exploration of identity as a mixed Japanese Canadian arti st.\n<span style="color: #333333\; font-family: ">\n<span style="color: #3 33333\;"><span style="font-size: 16px\;">https://shintaniartdesign.com/miy a-turnbull<span style="color: #333333\; font-family: "><span style="color: #333333\;"><span style="font-size: 16px\; color: #333333\;">-revealed\n<s pan style="color: #333333\; font-family: "><span style="color: #333333\; f ont-family: "><span style="color: #333333\;"><span style="font-size: 16px\ ;"><span style="color: #333333\; font-family: "><span style="color: #33333 3\;"><span style="font-size: 16px\; color: #333333\;"><span style="color: #333333\;"><span style="font-size: 16px\;">https://www.instagram.com/p/DAw HBM3vmpc/\n<span style="color: #333333\; font-family: "><span style="font- family: "><span style="font-size: 16px\;">\nAbout Miya\n\n<p style="box-si zing: inherit\; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em\; padding: 0px\; color: #333333\; fo nt-family: ">Miya Turnbull (she/her) is a multi-disciplinary visual artist based in Kjipuktuk (Halifax\, N.S.) and Yonsei (fourth generation Japanes e Canadian). She works with many different mediums but is primarily a mask -artist\, and new to her practice is performance. She focuses on Self Port raits\, using her Photo-Mask technique to make life-like variations and re presentations of her face\, often distorting\, erasing or manipulating her image as a way to explore identity.\n\n<p style="box-sizing: inherit\; ma rgin: 0px 0px 1.5em\; padding: 0px\; color: #333333\; font-family: ">Miya has exhibited her masks\, photos\, and video in galleries across Canada as well as the US\, Europe and Asia. Most recently\, she showed at the Pendu lum Gallery in Vancouver\, the Nelson Museum\, Archives and Gallery\, also in B.C.\, as well as the SEEWELL International Art Center in Fuzhou\, Chi na. Also this year she worked with Butoh dancer Emiko Agatsuma (Tokyo)\, a nd performed together along with musician Hitoshi Sugiyama (Edmonton) in a 40 minute collaboration called LADDER 梯子\, shown in Halifax\, N.S. Mi ya holds a B.F.A from the University in Lethbridge (Alberta) and has been fortunate to receive many grants from the Canada Council for the Arts as w ell as Arts Nova Scotia.\n\n<p style="box-sizing: inherit\; margin: 0px 0p x 1.5em\; padding: 0px\; color: #333333\; font-family: ">Artist Statement: \n\n<p style="box-sizing: inherit\; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em\; padding: 0px\; color: #333333\; font-family: ">Themes of masking\, authenticity\, the mu ltiplicity of self\, and its fragmentation form the core of my exploration . Drawing inspiration from the multifaceted roles of masks—utilized for disguise\, transformation\, and protection—alongside their metaphorical significance encompassing persona\, archetypes and self-expression\, my ar tistic journey revolves around delving into the intricate layers of identi ty within the personal and collective sense.\n\n<p style="box-sizing: inhe rit\; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em\; padding: 0px\; color: #333333\; font-family: ">\nMy body of work\, which includes many variations of self-portrait mas ks\, and subsequent images of me wearing the masks\, stems from my experie nces growing up with mixed Japanese and British ancestry. Constantly quest ioned about who I was and where I was from\, solely based on the ambiguity of my facial features\, I realized the emphasis and importance placed on the human face\, not only for communication and recognition but also as a locus of identity. I’m particularly intrigued by the liminal space betwe en defined margins: the private versus public (what we present to the worl d versus what we conceal)\, the dichotomy of ‘beauty’ versus ‘grotes que’ (the shifting or blurring of this boundary)\, and the complexities of bi-racial identity (embodying duality and ‘in-between-ness’).\n\n<p style="box-sizing: inherit\; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em\; padding: 0px\; color : #333333\; font-family: "> \n\n DTSTAMP:20250125T185531Z SUMMARY:Art In Toronto: Miya Kimiye Turnbull "Revealed" @ Shintani Gallery URL:/en/events/2024/10/06/art-in-toronto-miya-kimiye-turnbull-revealed/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR