Circuit

We are the leading voice for artist moving image in Aotearoa New Zealand

In a gallery we see three artowrks, from left, on the floor a loose assembly of metal resembling a cloud, in the centre a hole in the wall approximately the size of a dumb waiter, and at right, a video projection of an animated cloud.

Installation Shot: Sonya Lacey, Eveningness (2026) Whangarei Art Museum (2026). Photo by Sam Hartnett.

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Sonya Lacey, Eveningness: 22 February – 21 June 2026, Whangārei Art Museum

"What if we can’t distinguish this circadian rhythm as natural? What if it just doesn’t work? What was it like before Maui tamed the sun? Or in that preternatural zone before Tane cleaved his parents apart?" - Hamish Win writes on Sonya Lacey's installation Eveningness.

<p>Sonya Lacey, <em>Eveningness</em>: 22 February – 21 June 2026, Whangārei Art Museum</p>

CIRCUIT is the leading voice for artist moving image in Aotearoa New Zealand

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Sonya Lacey

Installation Documentation: Eveningness (2026)

Installation Documentation: Eveningness

Hana Pera Aoake

Te Mamaeroa (2024)

Te Mamaeroa

An image of a New Zealand farm land hillside. The land is barren of trees, with some scrub behind an old fence in the lower half of the image. The sky is grey, clouded and gloomy.

Holly Walker

As people disappear from sight (2026)

As people disappear from sight

A screengrab of a 2 screen video. The left screen shows sheep, shot on 1980s home video. The right screen shows text describing the image and the action of the camera operator.

Frances Libeau

Lake of Wandering Spirits (2026)

Lake of Wandering Spirits

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Writing & podcast

There are two sections of text written in yellow and all capitals. At top it reads; I WON'T SHOW YOU THE IMAGE. BUT, IF YOU'RE LISTENING, YOU WILL HEAR THE CLICK OF THE BOLT-GUN. At bottom, the text reads; [THE SHEEP ARE STILL QUIET. THEY HAVE EXCELLENT HEARING.]

Asynchrony of the Lambs: Frances Libeau’s Lake of Wandering Spirits

Exhibition review

By Theo Macdonald ·

A 50 year old "administrative document" becomes the starting point for an installation examining postcolonial myths of nationhood.

Frances Libeau’s Lake of Wandering Spirits

In a concrete wall we see a circle which shows a watery reflective surface.

Kumutoto Peephole

Exhibition review

By Mauatua Fa'ara-Reynolds ·

"At the centre of this work is a tension between two material bodies." Mauatua Fa'ara Reynolds writes on Sarah Hudson and Rachel Anson's Kumutoto Peephole (2026).

Kumutoto Peephole