Exhibitions
Events
On display
Dummies & Doppelgängers: The Old ‘Push and Pull’
Patricia Piccinini Kindred 2018. Silicone, fibreglass, hair. Collection of Patricia Piccini, Melbourne; courtesy of Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, and Roslyn Oxley Gallery, Sydney
Peter Madden Crouches with Moths 2010. Found photographs, paper, wood, plastic, baked clay, paint, gold leaf. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, purchased 2011
Tony Oursler Sang 2008. Fibreglass, gesso, audio / video projection. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, purchased with the support of Christchurch City Council's Challenge Grant to the Christchurch Art Gallery Foundation, 2013
Talk
Past event
Meet in the exhibition
Free
Curator Felicity Milburn leads a closer look at a handful of key works in Dummies & Doppelgängers.
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
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Exhibition
Dummies & Doppelgängers
2 November 2024 – 23 March 2025
The unforgettable art of being someone else.
Collection
Claudia Kogachi Ghost
Faced with the narrow romantic archetypes of popular movies, Claudia Kogachi decided to crack the genre open a little wider with paintings that reimagine iconic moments from popular films like Brokeback Mountain, Kill Bill and The Fast and the Furious. Here, she recreates the unforgettable pottery scene from Ghost, the 1990 supernatural romance starring Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore. Inserting herself and partner Josephine into the title roles, Kogachi disrupts the heteronormativity Hollywood typically promotes, proposing a new kind of love story. Her wide-eyed stand-ins lack the glamour of their cinematic counterparts, but arguably represent something more authentic.
(Dummies & Doppelgängers, 2 November 2024 – 23 March 2025)
Artist Profile
Unfamiliars
One size doesn’t necessarily fit all. Amongst other ideas, our current exhibition Dummies & Doppelgängers explores how imagined or altered identities can help artists construct worlds that better accommodate them or others. Here, the exhibition’s curator Felicity Milburn considers how this dynamic plays out in the work of two of the featured artists.
