25 November – 25 February 2024 | Vital Machinery explores intersections in the practices of five Aotearoa women artists - Conor Clarke, Selina Ershadi, Janet Lilo, Louise Menzies and Meg Porteous - working across photography and moving image. In this exhibition, the camera has been engaged as a technology and an extension of the body and thought process.
9 December 2023 - 14 April 2024 | He Whare Ātaahua is an installation by Jade Townsend which combines different traditions of painting, adornment, and decoration. The exhibition title, meaning “a beautiful house”, speaks to Townsend’s interest in layering cultural ideas of aesthetic beauty and finding meaning within our environment.
9 December 2023 – 10 March 2024 | Exploring the shifting political grounds of global food production, Empty Vessels and Desert Narratives is a dialogue between Aotearoa New Zealand artist Matthew Galloway and Sahrawi Western Saharan artist Mohamed Sleiman Labat. The two, who have had an ongoing correspondence since meeting in 2016, present different perspectives on Aotearoa’s reliance on phosphate rock from Western Sahara.
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