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Yona Lee
Yona Lee at work in her Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland studio in 2024. Photo: Belmont Productions Ltd.
Talk
Meet under the stairs
Free
Artist Yona Lee joins us to celebrate the launch of her new commission for the Gallery and discuss her practice. In conversation with lead curator Felicity Milburn.
Yona Lee is known for her elaborate, site-specific installations that respond to and complicate our engagement with urban and domestic environments. Using stainless steel tubing and everyday objects, Lee’s labyrinthine structures encourage us to consider the frameworks—literal and figurative—that shape our interaction with public and private space.
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Exhibition
Yona Lee: Fountain in Transit
From 13 December 2024
A lively, restorative under-stairs sculpture for Te Puna o Waiwhetū.
Interview
Practice, Poetry and Precision
Artist Yona Lee has been preparing something very special in her Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland studio – a new commission that honours the history of the Gallery building, Te Puna o Waiwhetū. Lee took some time away from her workbench to speak with lead curator Felicity Milburn about her dream of filling the under-stairs space with water and light.
Notes
Face Five
Christchurch-born and internationally renowned artist Ronnie van Hout has had a huge hand in our latest outdoor installation. Quasi, a five-metre-tall sculpture of the artist's hand and facial features, was unveiled this morning on the Gallery's rooftop, next to Gloucester Street.
Interview
Not Quite Human
Lara Strongman: The title of your new work for the Gallery is Quasi. Why did you call it that?
Ronnie van Hout: Initially it was a working title. Because the work would be outside the Gallery, on the roof, I was thinking of Quasimodo, from Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. I was coming out of a show and research around the idea of the freak, the outsider and things that are rejected—thinking about how even things that are rejected have a relationship to whatever they’ve been rejected by. And I called it Quasi, because it’s a human form that’s not quite human as well. The idea of something that resembles a human but is not quite human.
