Family Tree Whakapapa

Family Tree Whakapapa brings together the work of four sisters: elin o’Hara Slavick, Madeleine Slavick, Sarah Slavick and Susanne Slavick.

As curators, painters, photographers and writers, all have incorporated images of trees in social, political and environmental conditions — trees that stand as refuge and livelihood, consumed and consuming, under assault and triumphant, as a historical record and as a harbinger of things to come. Family Tree Whakapapa offers perspectives both unsettling and soothing as nature increasingly reflects salient issues of our times.