<div dir="ltr"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="gmail-mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium;min-width:100%"><tbody class="gmail-mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td valign="top" class="gmail-mcnTextBlockInner" style="border-collapse:collapse;padding-top:9px"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="gmail-mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse:collapse;max-width:100%;min-width:100%"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" class="gmail-mcnTextContent" style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(80,80,80);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;line-height:21px;padding:0px 18px 9px"><p>Burnaby, BC – Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre presents a new exhibition <strong><em>Where Songs Surface</em></strong> by <strong>Masako Miyazaki</strong> and <strong>Yoshimi Lee</strong> from March 18 – September 16, 2023.<br><br>Artists Masako Miyazaki and Yoshimi Lee work independently, yet share parallel connections to Japan, Canada, and the medium of photography. With different origins and inspiration for their practice, their paths intersect with their mutual talent for storytelling, to expand the narrative beyond what is visible, and to connect time, place, and memory.<br><br>Masako Miyazaki was born in Tokyo and is currently living and working in Montreal. She migrated alone while carrying her Japanese identity, and built her new life in Canada because she “appreciated the diversity and generosity of Canadian culture”. Miyazaki uses a parable of a monkey-monster from her country of birth to question our place within nature. She chooses organic processes and materials such as handmade paper and using sunlight. She combines photos with poetry to stimulate the imagination.<br><br>Yoshimi Lee uses lived experience as raw material, with photography, video, and writing of place to explore themes linked to her identity as an uprooted woman. Lee contemplates her new home in Canada as a place of unquestioned acceptance. Born in France, she traces her origins to Korea as both her parents and family were Korean residents in Japan in their early years; Lee immigrated to Canada 10 years ago. She grew up in a multi-cultural environment of French, Japanese, and Korean, and had many opportunities to visit her family in Japan while growing up and was particularly close with her grandmother there.<br><br>This exhibit includes a heritage corner drawn from Nikkei National Museum's collection.<br><br>We are grateful for the support of the BC Arts Council, the Province of BC, Canada Council for the Arts, and the Council of Art and Letters of Quebec.</p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="gmail-mcnCaptionBlock" style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium"><tbody class="gmail-mcnCaptionBlockOuter"><tr><td class="gmail-mcnCaptionBlockInner" valign="top" style="border-collapse:collapse;padding:9px"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="gmail-mcnCaptionBottomContent" style="border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td class="gmail-mcnCaptionBottomImageContent" align="center" valign="top" style="border-collapse:collapse;padding:0px 9px 9px"><img alt="" src="https://mcusercontent.com/b315bd885335b00042131a118/_compresseds/e2ea2a3c-ae20-14c1-7e0d-bfce2feb2a4b.jpg" width="564" class="gmail-mcnImage" style="border: 0px; height: auto; line-height: 16px; outline: none; vertical-align: bottom; max-width: 800px;"></td></tr><tr><td class="gmail-mcnTextContent" valign="top" width="564" style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(80,80,80);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;line-height:21px;padding:0px 9px">Masako Miyazaki<br><strong>A red monkey</strong><br>Inkjet print, 30”×22”, 2019</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="gmail-mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium;min-width:100%"><tbody class="gmail-mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td valign="top" class="gmail-mcnTextBlockInner" style="border-collapse:collapse;padding-top:9px"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="gmail-mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse:collapse;max-width:100%;min-width:100%"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" class="gmail-mcnTextContent" style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(80,80,80);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;line-height:21px;padding:0px 18px 9px"><br><strong>Masako Miyazaki artist statement</strong><br>I capture moments in reality to create an extended imaginary world, taking on the role of a storyteller thinking about our position as human beings being an integral part of nature. I am attracted to photography because it allows me to freeze the current moment which would otherwise flee. I take photographs when I encounter the aura of places. My approach is to combine photos with my poetry to expand the story beyong the visible images and stimulate imagination.<br>Website <a href="https://masakomiyazaki.com/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(235,65,2)">masakomiyazaki.com</a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="gmail-mcnCaptionBlock" style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium"><tbody class="gmail-mcnCaptionBlockOuter"><tr><td class="gmail-mcnCaptionBlockInner" valign="top" style="border-collapse:collapse;padding:9px"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="gmail-mcnCaptionBottomContent" style="border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td class="gmail-mcnCaptionBottomImageContent" align="center" valign="top" style="border-collapse:collapse;padding:0px 9px 9px"><img alt="" src="https://mcusercontent.com/b315bd885335b00042131a118/images/25c4810b-4c4a-554a-1d80-3fceef702666.jpg" width="564" class="gmail-mcnImage" style="border: 0px; height: auto; line-height: 16px; outline: none; vertical-align: bottom; max-width: 900px;"></td></tr><tr><td class="gmail-mcnTextContent" valign="top" width="564" style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(80,80,80);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;line-height:21px;padding:0px 9px">Yoshimi Lee<br><strong>Irokawa, La montagne</strong><br>Inkjet Print, 60”x 88”, 2015</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="gmail-mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium;min-width:100%"><tbody class="gmail-mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td valign="top" class="gmail-mcnTextBlockInner" style="border-collapse:collapse;padding-top:9px"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="gmail-mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse:collapse;max-width:100%;min-width:100%"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" class="gmail-mcnTextContent" style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(80,80,80);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;line-height:21px;padding:0px 18px 9px"><br><strong>Yoshimi Lee artist statement</strong><br>Yoshimi Lee is not only a photographer but also an artist working with video, installation and performance art after a professional education in photography. Yoshimi’s parents are immigrants from Korea to Japan. Although born and raised in France, she was given a Japanese education from her parents and speaks fluent Japanese. She currently lives in Montreal, Canada with her husband and children. Even though her life experience possesses scarce context from Korea, She, as an Asian French artist, has repeatedly considered the tradition of passing on the memory of the inherited culture from parent to child.<br><br>Her work focuses on finding, discovering and reinventing her roots;<br><br>In her work Furusato, she is intuitively seeking for places that recalls her parents and grand-parents childhood memories; since becoming herself a mother of two, her search for creating a Furusato for her own family has grown. She has visited few times a remote mountain village in Wakayama, first as the family pioneer and felt strongly connected to this rural Japanese site. Later she decided to present the place to her family. The work Furusato is a photographic and sound experience, immersing the public into a collective idea of the memory of reconnecting with one’s own roots through nature.</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="gmail-mcnButtonBlock" style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium;min-width:100%"><tbody class="gmail-mcnButtonBlockOuter"><tr><td valign="top" align="center" class="gmail-mcnButtonBlockInner" style="border-collapse:collapse;padding:0px 18px 18px"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="gmail-mcnButtonContentContainer" style="border:2px solid rgb(232,17,45);border-radius:6px"><tbody><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" class="gmail-mcnButtonContent" style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:Arial;font-size:16px;padding:18px"><a class="gmail-mcnButton" title="Exhibit website" href="https://centre.nikkeiplace.org/exhibits/where-songs-surface/" target="_blank" style="font-weight:bold;line-height:16px;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(232,17,45)">Exhibit website</a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="gmail-mcnImageBlock" style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium;min-width:100%"><tbody class="gmail-mcnImageBlockOuter"><tr><td valign="top" class="gmail-mcnImageBlockInner" style="border-collapse:collapse;padding:9px"><table align="left" width="100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