Description
We wanted to create a true exhibition catalogue, but got bored with trying to cram in so much irrelevant information into book form. Instead, we chose to create a book object that could, as much as we could, recreate the exhibition experience. We also wanted to make the object as small and affordable as possible for folks to take away with them. So voilà, our exhibition souvenir mini-book that is A6 sized (roughly 4×6”), full colour, 68 pages, perfect binding, presented in right-to-left format and only $25 CAD.
This book contains all the images that were presented in the exhibition, plus 7 more.
68 pages, ISBN: 978-1-7388055-2-5
Published by Young W, 2026.
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION THIS BOOK IS BASED ON:
Shortly after his mother’s funeral, artist WOO SEE-MING made a pilgrimage to the Laurentian Highlands of Quebec.
It was there that his mother took up waitressing in the late 1950s. Despite speaking only French, she fell in love with a Chinese cook with whom she could barely communicate. The village priest refused to marry them. They then moved to Montreal. By accident, the artist would be born to them several years later.
In the final years of her life, WOO’s mother had wanted to see her village once more, but her health did not permit it.
The church that had been central to her life, the partial ruins of the old paper factory where WOO’s grandfather had worked from the 1910s to the 1960s, the cemetery where generations of his ancestors are resting, and the house that his great-grandparents built with their own hands and in which his mother was born — photos taken in and around these sites in 2025 by WOO serve as the foundation of this photography exhibition where time, sadness, love and joy collapse into one.
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