We are delighted to share that the work of Emma Nishimura has been acquired by the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal from the artist's series Generations of an Archive and An Archive of Rememory.
Nishimura’s practice focuses on the experiences her family and thousands of other Japanese Canadians endured throughout their forced incarceration during the Second World War, exploring this history and its ongoing reverberations throughout subsequent generations.
An Archive of Rememory is a sculptural series of small bundled forms known as furoshiki. Created through photo-intaglio and sculptural papermaking processes, and using imagery from family archives (Nishimura's as well as those of others). the bundles carry the illusion of physical weight. Each form, however, is empty, bearing only the traces of what it once held. Generations of an Archive extends this exploration of memory through photo-etched still life images of the furoshiki bundles, fixing them in one perspective and rendering further information lost.
