Selina Ershadi & Azita Chegini Amator 2019. Stills. Digital video (35min). Courtesy of the artists
Selina Ershadi & Azita Chegini Amator 2019. Stills. Digital video (35min). Courtesy of the artists
Selina Ershadi & Azita Chegini Amator 2019. Stills. Digital video (35min). Courtesy of the artists
Conor Clarke [Kāi Tahu, Kāti Kurī] Objects in mirror are closer than they appear [Tapuae-o-Uenuku] 2021. Archival ink on Hahnemühle Baryta paper. Courtesy of the artist
Conor Clarke [Kāi Tahu, Kāti Kurī] Sandclock 2018. Archival ink on Hahnemühle Baryta paper. Courtesy of the artist
Conor Clarke [Kāi Tahu, Kati Kurī] Far seer (up in the clouds) 2022. Archival ink on Hahnemühle Baryta paper. Courtesy of the artist.
Conor Clarke [Kāi Tahu, Kāti Kurī] A Mountain reveals a mountain 2022. Archival ink on Hahnemühle Baryta paper. Courtesy of the artist
JANET LILO [Ngā Puhi, Samoa, Niue] Stolen/Time 2022. Digital photographs. Installation view. Courtesy of the artist. Photograph: Justin Spiers.
JANET LILO [Ngā Puhi, Samoa, Niue] Stolen/Time 2022. Digital photographs. Installation view (detail). Courtesy of the artist. Photograph: Justin Spiers.
Louise Menzies left: March 2022. centre: Just so you know 2022. right (on the wall): September 2022. Digital print on silk, wood. Installation view. Courtesy of the artist
Louise Menzies Just so you know 2022. Artwork for digital print. Courtesy of the artist
Louise Menzies In an orange my mother was eating 2019. Digital video. Courtesy of the artist. Installation view.
Meg Porteous NZ Surfer, gash gore of the month (reject) 2019. Digital c-type print. Courtesy of the artist
Meg Porteous Teeth Grinder (posterior bitewings) 1 & 2 2020. Digital c-type print mounted on 3mm aluminium. Courtesy of the artist
Meg Porteous A Shade 2021. Digital c-type print fuji flex. Courtesy of the artist
Meg Porteous Stream 2021. C-type handprint. Courtesy of the artist
Vital Machinery
Conor Clarke, Selina Ershadi, Janet Lilo, Louise Menzies, Meg Porteous
12 November 2022 - 12 February 2023
Vital Machinery brings together recent works by five Aotearoa New Zealand contemporary artists working across photography and moving image. Diverse in form and approach, the intersections of these five bodies of work create space for new thinking – opening up ways to consider histories of lens-based art practices, relationships between artist and subject, and the consumption, agency and stability of the image in a digital age.
The works in Vital Machinery offer ways to examine, exploit and subvert the power dynamics of the camera – activating discussion of women’s experiences of the lens, the entanglement of lived experience and creative practice, and the implications of image capture within histories of colonisation.
Curated by Lucy Hammonds and Sophie Davis
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