Without Centre, Without Limits
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, 42 Queen St, New Plymouth, Taranaki
Saturday 6 July 2024 – Sunday 13 October 2024 10:00am – 5:00pm
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without centre, without limits
06 Jul - 13 Oct 2024
Four artists from south and east Taiwan present new works that draw on their personal experiences to invigorate their indigenous material cultures, narratives, and knowledge.
Artists: Lafin Sawmah, Eleng Luluan, Akac Orat, Malay Makakazuwan
Curators: Dr Zara Stanhope, Taarati Taiaroa
This exhibition by four artists from south and east Taiwan was conceived in 2022 as part of a process to enact connections and encourage future exchanges between Taiwan and Aotearoa - a space of shared migration and enduring whakapapa ties.
Insights into the contemporary life and concerns of the artists—Lafin Sawmah, Eleng Luluan, Akac Orat and Malay Makakazuwan— are offered through new works created for the Govett-Brewster after reflecting on time spent together during a two-week residency in Aotearoa.
Each artist draws on their personal experience and distinct tribal backgrounds to invigorate their indigenous material cultures, narratives, and knowledge. The resulting works are grounded in the shared beliefs of collective responsibility, community spirit, an inseparable connection to land and sea, and the unbreakable bond between past, present and future— all ideas from the edge of Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa which have a resonance here in Aotearoa. The possibilities of this space, these relations, are conceived as being without a centre, and without limits.
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Ko te whakairatanga o tēnei whakaaturanga i te tau 2022, nā ngā ringatoi tokowhā o te paeroa o Taiwana i tārei, hei tūkanga ki te whakatinana i ngā hononga, ā, ki te akiaki i te tikanga whakawhitiwhiti, ā te wā heke, i waenga i Taiwana me Aotearoa - i te ātea o ngā hekenga nui me ngā tātai whakapapa tuku iho.
Ka tohaina ngā whakaaro o nāianei me ngā take e pā ana ki ngā ringatoi—ko Lafin Sawmah rātou ko Eleng Luluan, ko Akac Orat, ko Malay Makakazuwan—mā ngā mahi hōu I waihangatia mō Govett-Brewster Art Gallery i muri i te wānanga rua wiki te roa i Aotearoa nei.
Ka tāmaua e ia ringatoi ngā wheako me ngā hītori motuhake ake o ia iwi, ki te whakahaumanu ii ngā kura o roto i ngā pūrākau me ngā rauemi taketake o hō rātou ahurea. Ko te whakatinanatanga o hēnei mahi ka kitea i te rangitāmirotanga o ngā whakapono ki te mahi I te ngākau tapatahi, i te wairua o te whakaaro tahi, kia toitū te hononga ki te whenua me te moana, ki hō rātou ake aho tāngaengae e kore e motukia— e whai tikanga ana hēnei whakaaro katoa i tēnā pito o Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa ki tēnei pito i Aotearoa nei. Kāore he pito, kāore hoki he taiepa i te pitomata o tēnei takiwā, i hēnei hononga hoki.
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An illustrated bilingual Mandarin and English publication will be available in late 2024 comprising texts on the artists and their context by Taiwanese writers, various reflections on the Aotearoa residency and project, and documentation of the artists’ new works.
Public Programmes:
Sat 06 Jul 2024 | 10:30AM | Artists' Kōrero: without centre without limits
Sat 06 Jul 2024 | 1:00PM | Curators Tour: without centre, without limits