"Te Mamaeroa is a work of memory. The moving image work retraces layers of whakapapa (genealogy) from the farms, cattle, and gates of the 21st century to the maunga (mountains) and mists of the deep past. Taking place in Matamata, better known as the home of the Hobbiton set, the work interrogates the physical and emotional distance between collective memory and individual experience." - BUS Projects
Te Mamaeroa (2024)
Other works by Hana Pera Aoake
Hana Pera Aoake
I saw the mountain erupt (2023)
I saw the mountain erupt considers the deep histories of maunga, geology, and awa through the resilience of local tuna (eels).
Hana Pera Aoake
a eulogy to love (2019)
A poetic meditation on the self, love, learning and pain is interwoven through collaged landscapes and scenes from Michelangelo Antonioni’s Red Desert (1964).
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te tamaiti, te ao (2022)
A reflection on the poem 'E Tu Papatūānuku' by Keri Hulme, te tamaiti, te ao considers deep time and the ways in which a new child is linked to ancestral knowledge, whenua and pūrakau carried down through generations.