Various Artists with Sofia & Maya

The tongue to them is the latest exhibition at Artspace Aotearoa, bringing together the works of Darcell Apelu, Martha Atienza, Heidi Brickell, Buck Nin, and Yee I-Lann.

Together, the artists contemplate collectivity and language as tools for resistance through their respective visual mediums and languages from across Aotearoa, Malaysia and the Philippines they bring into Artspace Aotearoa’s space. 

Sofia had a kōrero with Kairauhī Curator of Artspace Aotearoa, Robbie Handcock, about the exhibition, and the ideas that bind these artists and their practices together.

How to Disappear is an exhibition by multidisciplinary Ōtautahi-based artist Steve Carr currently on at Gow Langsford Gallery. 

In a body of work composed of photographs, a moving image work, and sculpture, Carr stages a series of failed attempts at disappearance – reminding us that no matter how much we try to hide, something in us always remains visible. 

Seen crouched and stood behind invisibility shields, bushes, trees, and coloured smoke bombs, Carr repeatedly fails to camouflage himself – giving the works a certain absurdity and comedic quality that has been a recurring theme in Carr’s practice.

Sofia caught up with Steve Carr about the making of How to Disappear and his creative process.

Throw is an exhibition of new paintings by Philip Kelly at Charles Ninow Gallery.

Showing a continuation of Kelly’s long-time ‘turntable’ painting series, this new body of work shows a shift in Kelly’s process by replacing the record player as a mode of making with the electric potter’s wheel. These abstract images are bright explorations of form and colour through a process of applying, removing, and manipulating paint on a rotating surface to form works that are almost rhythmic and musical in nature, speaking to the exploration of the interrelationship between music and art, which drives much of Kelly’s artistic practice. 

Sof had a kōrero with Philip Kelly about the show and these themes.

aao, batt karo (come, talk to me), the aperture of the moon, is an exhibition by artists Kalpana Pandaram and Lisa Crowley. 

Coming together through their shared desire and Interested in the lives of historical and vulnerable individuals, in an attempt to look to, and gather the collective consciousness of another. 

Maya had a chat with Kalpana Pandaram and Lisa Crowley about their individual practices as well as the show.