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'Power of the black mirror' exposed in new Coquitlam art show

Multidisciplinary artists Gwenessa Lam and Hyung-Min Yoon open their exhibit Trace at Coquitlam’s Evergreen Cultural Centre on Sunday.
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Gwenessa Lam, 368 House Fires (Reverse Image Search 2015-16

Multidisciplinary artists Gwenessa Lam and Hyung-Min Yoon open their exhibit Trace at Coquitlam’s Evergreen Cultural Centre with a reception and talk from 2 to 4:30 p.m. on Saturday.

Their show, which runs in the gallery until April 26, is part of the 2020 Capture Photography Festival Selected Exhibition Program and looks at “the power of the black mirror in a range of its incarnations” — including the use of images from different times and countries and on various platforms.

Lam (whose 368 House Fires is at pictured) is a visual artist and educator from Calgary while Yoon, who splits her time between Vancouver and Seoul, last year produced Black Book, an analogue film installation that translates her bookwork into a large-scale projection.