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JCCC Gallery's fall exhibit: Paradise!

Announcing the JCCC Gallery's fall exhibit: Paradise!
Opening October 3 at 7PM as part of the JCCC's Nuit Blanche offerings! Paradise is a multimedia installation by Japanese Canadian artists and longtime family friends Mitchell Akiyama and Emma Nishimura that explores intergenerational inheritance.
Combining print, video, and sculpture, the work reflects on their relationship to the legacy of Japanese Canadian internment experienced by their paternal grandparents.
The exhibition draws on a shared childhood memory of a summer day in Northern Ontario, where the artists and their siblings built a temporary “Frog Paradise.” This moment of play, shaped by a sense of safety and belonging, becomes a lens for considering how one group’s utopia can exist alongside another’s harm.
The installation includes video that intercuts footage of this experience with recent visits to former internment sites in British Columbia. Bridging personal narrative and historical context, Paradise examines the forced relocation and incarceration of Japanese Canadians, tracing how this legacy continues to shape memory, displacement, and belonging across generations.
Please join us on Nuit Blanche for an artist talk at 7PM and an origami frog workshop led by the artists at 9PM. 🐸
Paradise's opening reception will be held on October 25th from 2 to 4 PM.
We hope you’ll join us at the JCCC Gallery for Paradise!
  • JCCC Gallery's fall exhibit: Paradise!
  • JCCC Gallery's fall exhibit: Paradise!

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