The liver is a mirror to the universe
A pile of logs
Peanut sign
[2022]
Te Whare Toi City Gallery Wellington, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington
A selection of work part of At Thresholds, curated by Moya Lawson
With Olivia Blyth, Georgette Brown, Debra Bustin, Richard Frater, Ioane Ioane, Fiona Pardington, Emily Parr, Maureen Lander and Denise Batchelor, Lucy Meyle, Sorawit Songsataya, Zina Swanson
At Thresholds explores humanity’s place within the multispecies—a vibrant universe of lifeforms, including fungi, plants and animals.
In a time of ecological crisis, the artists in this exhibition consider how art might renew our awareness of living with our more-than-human cohabitants. They take a range of perspectives at the thresholds of other existences. Through imaginative visual languages, the artists evoke diverse, commingling ways of being, which help shape and sustain the planet we share. Their work destabilises our human-centred present, proposing that much can be learned from telling stories about life, as one amongst multitudes. The exhibition asks us what it means to mediate between life forms and life forces, between worlds that are both enmeshed and in orbit, between relationships that are untranslatable, but richly and devastatingly consequential.
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The liver is a mirror to the universe (2020), cast bronze replica of The Liver of Piacenza
A pile of logs (2018), paper packing tape, marker pen, used cardboard boxes
Peanut sign (originally 2020)papier-mâché, resin, acrylic paint, zinc bracket