Where Songs Surface

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 sunlight. She combines photos with poetry to stimulate the imagination.

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. She contemplates her new home in Canada as a place of unquestioned acceptance. Born in France, Lee 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. 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”.