Margaret Dawson
Aotearoa New Zealand, b.1950
Woman at the Catholic Cathedral, Christchurch
- 1985
- Photograph
- Purchased, 1986
- 1035 x 760mm
- 88/176
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Tags: bags (costume accessories), cathedrals (buildings), churches (buildings), columns (architectural elements), doors, gloves, hats, religious buildings, women (female humans)
Margaret Dawson poses outside Christchurch’s Catholic Cathedral with hat, gloves and handbag, recreating a photograph she found in the street and salvaged. The internal experience of this tightly buttoned-up churchgoer is overshadowed by the institution that towers over her. Where does her power lie?
(Dummies & Doppelgängers, 2 November 2024 – 23 March 2025)
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