Art Metropole Black Book Local Exhibited and published in collaboration

Exhibited and published in collaboration by the RMG and the Ottawa Art Gallery

• Size11 × 19 cm

now intensified by our global pandemic and human-induced climate crisis

sexual encounters

The publication illustrates the importance of visual and symbolic languages

Art Metropole Black Book Local Exhibited and published in collaborationBlack Book joins two threads of disparate cultures and historiesConfucian virtues & black humourinquiring into contemporary ideologies such as patriarchy and technological determinism. The woodblock illustrations in Black Book are borrowed from the 15th century Confucian text Illustrated Conduct of the Three Bonds, published and reproduced in Joseon era Korea as an effort to disseminate Confucian principles throughout the kingdom. These images are