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Made in the Pacific: A Collection of Tāoga
A selection of Pacific tāoga from the Canterbury Museum in conversation with contemporary artworks that highlight the continued strength in culture and traditional art forms.
Mark Adams: A Survey | He Kohinga Whakaahua
A comprehensive survey spanning the artist's career.
Ana Iti: Ngahere Behind a Pile of Metal
An immersive installation considering the legacies of deforestation and significance of kauri trees.
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Charlotte Watson Disquiet
This work documents a personal trauma – the estrangement of the artist and her mother – and also a collectively experienced one, the Ōtautahi Christchurch earthquake of 2011. Charlotte Watson used data recorded on 22 February and during the twenty-eight subsequent aftershocks registering over 5.0 on the Richter scale. The Y-axis of her drawing indicates the intensity of the aftershocks, while the X-axis is based on Watson’s emotions and memories. “The quake and subsequent disruption is a metaphor for the rupture and grief in relationship with my mother”, she has said. “The more severe the quake/rupture, the longer the ‘residue’.”
(Die Cuts and Derivations, 11 March – 2 July 2023)
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Sione Tuívailala Monū Returning Traces: our ancestors left us clues
Tongan-born, Canberra-raised, Tāmaki Makaurau-based, Sione Monū works in video, performance, photography, fashion and adornment. Often using a cell phone, they produce works concerned with identity, gender and Tongan life. Monū’s prolific output in video is a mix of observation, improvisation and sampling. Expanding the selfie to a self-filming technique, they reveal Pasifika queer culture and aspects of modern Tongan family life.
This video work was commissioned especially for the exhibition Te Wheke. It is Monū’s response to the curatorial brief to conside migrations from Polynesia and the rest of the world to Aotearoa, from Aotearoa to Polynesia, and back out to the wider world again.
(Te Wheke, 2020)