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12 Hui-tanguru - 21 Poutū-te-rangi 2010 | Tairawhiti Museum, Turanga Nui a Kiwa, Gisborne
Ki Wiwi Ki Wawa: A Survey of what it means to be Nati from the perspective of those at home and those who are away…
A far flung gathering of works, made by 9 artists of Ngati Porou descent, collide in Ki Wiwi Ki Wawa – Here and There, a contemporary Maori art exhibition organised by local artist Tania Short. Ngati Porou are geographically spread around Aotearoa and the world – and this show, reflecting that spread, features four Auckland based artists showing alongside their locally based peers.
The show features work by local artists PETER KAA, SIMON LARDELLI, TANIA SHORT, MELANIE TAHATA AND SAM TAARE, with works that directly reference the traditional, to those which lovingly look at the Coast through its important landscapes, and those that have been shaped by time away in the cities.
Ex-pat artists include photographer and multimedia artist, NATALIE ROBERTSON(.com ) – DION HITCHINS (also showing with James Ormsby at Paul Nache during February), CHRIS BRYANT and video artist RANGITUHIA HOLLIS.
For some, creating works that delved into their Ngati Porou heritage was a tough ask… And the results are an interesting mix of the romantically old and the startlingly new. The show as a collective speaks of both distance and time, of memories and the everyday.
The show opens February 12th at the Tairawhiti Museum.
5.30pm
“This exhibition grew out of my own observations of the different kinds of art creation that I was seeing produced by contemporary Maori artists. The work ki wiwi, (from ‘home’), has an altogether different flavour and feel to that produced by ex-pat Artists resident ki wawa (in other places). I was interested also in the fact that they hardly seem to collide, each residing in their own worlds speaking to entirely different audiences. But to me, the conversations seem so relevant to each other, or can fill the space that seems to exist between them… It would be great if this were the first step in connecting Nati’s spread throughout the motu and beyond, and the beginning of an artistic conversation about a topic that seems so relevant politically at this time. ”
TANIA SHORT – EXHIBITION CURATOR
