Exhibition reviews
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Homing Instinct: reflections on home, shelter, and belonging
Homing Instinct: reflections on home, shelter, and belonging
Curator Abby Cunnane reflects on understandings of home, shelter, and belonging through the works in the international touring exhibition Homing Instinct.

The Two-Fold Commitment: entanglements of sound and image at the play_station Film Festival
The Two-Fold Commitment: entanglements of sound and image at the play_station Film Festival
Jane Wallace excavates layers of meaning in the aural and visual registers of the six artists' films shown in the 2024 play_station Film Festival.

Skin in craters like the moon
Skin in craters like the moon
Samuel Te Kani responds to Skin in craters like the moon, an exhibition at Te Tuhi of recent works by Tāmaki Makaurau-based, Taiwanese (Han, Min-nan) artist Susu 蘇子誠 that explored associations between language and memory across virtual and physical worlds.

To move between: Alanis Obomsawin
To move between: Alanis Obomsawin
Layne Waerea responds to To move between: Healing and Resistance, an exhibition of work by Abenaki Nation filmmaker, Alanis Obomsawin, presented at Artspace Aotearoa.
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The air, like a stone
The air, like a stone
Hamish Win writes on The air, like a stone, an exhibition at The Physics Room that brought together a new commission by Ōtautahi-based artist Emma Fitts with a feature-length work by the London-based painter and filmmaker Rosalind Nashashibi.

Road Toll
Road Toll
"The road as escape, the road as gendered independence and virility, as freedom. The road as an awfully white, awfully landed marker of progress and moral good." — Lachlan Taylor considers Grant Priest's recent exhibition CAN at Enjoy Contemporary Art Space.
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The act of reciprocity with the living land
The act of reciprocity with the living land
Hana Pera Aoake writes on Sorawit Songsataya's solo exhibition Nirun at the University of Otago's Hocken Gallery.
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Enabling Phrases, Spaces, Places
Enabling Phrases, Spaces, Places
"In here, space is soft. Like blocking a lightbulb with your fingers, the walls betray an illuminated, epidermal glow." — Alena Kavka discusses Who can think, what can think at Te Tuhi

"The water in the container, that’s our bodies on display".
"The water in the container, that’s our bodies on display".
Hamish Win writes on James Oram's recent exhibition at Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, By Spectral Hands.

Ritual of feeling
Ritual of feeling
In the colonial grandeur of Pah Homestead, Xi Li's Brain Island simulates a pulsating futuristic fantasy
Taking a line for a walk
Taking a line for a walk
Connie Brown writes on Sam Hamilton's installation at Artspace Aotearoa, Te Moana Meridian (2022)

Overlap and Unfurl
Overlap and Unfurl
Māori Moving Image ki Te Puna o Waiwhetū, the latest chapter in the Māori Moving Image exhibition series, is sensitive to the mauri of materials and place.

24 Hours Tāmaki: 2022 Edition
24 Hours Tāmaki: 2022 Edition
Dangerous dating, ESP, and community video: a quick-fire round up of moving image activity around Auckland's galleries.

An Indifferent World
An Indifferent World
Alicia Frankovich’s Atlas of Anti-Taxonomies at the Christchurch Art Gallery picks apart the desire to categorise, classify, and impose order on the natural world.

3 New Works in a Year of Protest and Pandemic
3 New Works in a Year of Protest and Pandemic
Louie Zalk-Neale, Gabriel White, and Jamie Berry showed new work on Masons Screen in Wellington's CBD while people protested against the vaccine mandates, and Aotearoa tipped in and out of lockdowns.

Those who have never dived so, do not know the sea
Those who have never dived so, do not know the sea
The colonial villa and its attendant myths of empire are collapsed by George Watson in her exhibition of new video and sculpture at Te Uru, Kōtiro, Emepaea.

Mauri and the Spirit of Art in Te Wai Pounamu
Mauri and the Spirit of Art in Te Wai Pounamu
Kai Tāhu collaborate with the Dunedin Public Art Gallery on three exhibitions Hurahia Ana Kā Whetu: Unveiling the Stars, He Reka Te Kūmara, and Paemanu: Tauraka Toi—A Landing Place, in "one epic and epochal mahi toi responding to mana whenua".

An Exercise in Vital Materialism, Rage-as-Orgasm, and Spirited Disillusionment
An Exercise in Vital Materialism, Rage-as-Orgasm, and Spirited Disillusionment
Samuel Te Kani reviews Artspace Aotearoa's annual new artists show, CRUEL OPTIMISM.

Bridget Reweti's Illustrated Shards
Bridget Reweti's Illustrated Shards
The exhibition Pōkai Whenua, Pōkai Moana at the Hocken Gallery showed new lens-based work created during Bridget Reweti's time as the Frances Hodgkins Fellow in Ōtepoti.