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    Steffano Webb

    Aotearoa New Zealand, b.c. 1880, d.1967

    John Robert Godley

    • 1922
    • Photograph
    • 560 x 409mm
    • 88/19
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    Tags: buildings (structures), founders (originators), men (male humans), monochrome, people (agents), sculpture (visual work), urban landscapes

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    Such Human Tide

    Such Human Tide

    The exhibition He Waka Eke Noa brings together colonial-era, mainly Māori, portraiture alongside objects linked to colonisation – it’s a predictably uncomfortable mix. While the degree of discomfort may depend on one’s background or degree of connection to an enduringly difficult past, objects related to emigration and colonisation can be a useful lenses. As relics from a specific period in global history, when the movement of (particularly) European people was happening at an unprecedented scale, they hold stories with a measure of complexity that obliges an open-minded reading. There is no denying that they speak of losses and gains, of injustices and rewards.

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