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Dummies & Doppelgängers
Tia Ranginui Taniwha 2020. Photograph. Courtesy of the
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Join us for a floortalk from lead curator Felicity Milburn on the opening day of this new exhibition.
Full of humour, surprise and heart, this exhibition reveals how borrowed or re-imagined bodies can help us explore what it means to be human. Dummies & Doppelgängers combines sculpture, video, photography and more from the Gallery’s own collection and around Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia, including captivating works by artists including Sarah Lucas, Yuki Kihara, Patricia Piccinini, Ah Xian, Michael Parekōwhai, Tony Oursler, Ron Mueck and Ronnie van Hout. It’s an exuberant and unexpectedly touching selection that will take you from the hyper-real to the surreal, and from the tender to the absurd.
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Dummies & Doppelgängers
2 November 2024 – 23 March 2025
The unforgettable art of being someone else.
Commentary
Turn Around and I’m Gone Again
The public lives of artworks can be occasional and itinerant—they emerge from the cosy sameness of storage into fresh locations and contexts. Many make their first public appearances alongside siblings from their maker’s studio, but later find themselves in very different company. While some resolutely maintain their identity no matter how or where they are shown, others open up to additional associations and meanings. Fittingly for a show about the power of alternative identities, several of the works in Dummies & Doppelgängers have evolved over time, shapeshifting into new lives or likenesses.