Various Artists with Sofia & Maya

Tali is a group show exhibiting artists Serene Hodgman, Claudia Jowitt, Sione Monū, Ahilapalapa Rands, and Salome Tanuvasa, currently on at Melanie Roger Gallery. 

Facilitated by Claudia Jowitt, the show sees the artists weaving and plaiting together histories and traditional practices of the South Pacific from a contemporary diasporic lens grounded within their respective whakapapa, transforming the space into one of vibrance and joy through their mixed mediums and approaches. 

Sofia had a kōrero with Claudia Jowitt about the making of the show, and those included. 

Marc Koorey is a Tāmaki based artist working from a practice of Sculpture to produce kinetic works with elements of sound that bring viewers into the curated world of Koorey’s practice.

His current show on at Strawhouse, Music on Hold presents a series of intricate sculptures, a kinetic curtain in a constant loop of unveiling, A bright red fluorescent light that casts the entire hallway in a red tint,  and a hanging metal sculpture that murmurs Koorey’s sound work as you navigate each work. Coming together in a rhythmic dialogue ro invite viewers into a space of encounter.

Maya had a kōrero with Marc about the show and overall practice.

The Balcony is an exhibition by artist Selina Foote that is currently being shown at Two Rooms. The Balcony presents a series of geometric acrylic and graphite works on canvas that emerge from familiar 19th century paintings and their reproductions. 

Through a process of self prescribed rules Foote transforms these reproduction images of 19th century paintings, radically defamiliarizing them and bringing them into a place of full geometric abstraction. Lost within their own technologies of reproduction but also pulling them back into a place of painterly materiality. 

Maya had a chat with Selina about the show and overall practice.

Jelena Telecki is a Yugoslavian, Sydney based artist working amongst a practice of painting, drawing and sculpture to explore representation and its possibilities. Looking towards the absurd to investigate the personal and the political. 

Her paintings display rich elements of narrative, the paintings themselves almost mimicking the likes of film stills, or rather a play through their theatrical nature. Cropped figures surrounded by murky greyscale atmospheres, luring viewers into a narrative that they don't quite know all the answers too.  

Within her current self-titled show at Starkwhite, Jelena Telecki showcases work from the past decade of her practice. Bringing these works, and their figures together in space and time, through their overarching connected atmospheres. Creating this enhanced feeling of her work as an extended play, experiencing each act through every encounter of a painting. 

Maya had a chat with Jelena about the show and overall practice.