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The film moves through the hidden storage spaces of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, revealing artworks whose ownership records remain incomplete. Some bear traces of wartime displacement and intentional omissions; others have shifted in attribution, altering the narratives attached to them. It traces how institutional structures shape what becomes visible and what remains unresolved. As the camera moves through the storage rooms, “Coming Home” observes the museum as an active system of organization, where artworks are continually recontextualized. Viewers encounter the collection as an unseen archive and are asked to navigate a place where certainty is partial and orientation never fixed.

Jinjoo Yang is a Montreal-based artist and architect whose films emerge from direct engagement with specific sites. She works with institutional interiors, using controlled camera movement to trace how places hold and mediate their histories. Her practice moves between observation and construction, turning regulated environments into temporal landscapes where visibility, authorship, and memory subtly shift. Yang’s recent works include “Coming Home,” filmed in the collection storage of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and “Occupied,” a forthcoming film shaped by Cold War infrastructures. Her projects have been presented internationally at institutions such as the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Center for Architecture in New York, and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen.