Ex Ovo Omnia

This body of work explores how we mediate our experience of the world through images, things, and thoughts. Objects lifted from our day-to-day life become the stimulus for a foray of explorations around connected themes and ideas. With a focus on the encounter we have daily with mundane and extraordinary objects, this body of work attempts to open new perspectives on our experience of being in the world. The work employs photography, moving image, and painting.

— Joe Prisk, 20 March 2012

// Opening, 6pm Wed. 28/03
// Thurs. 29/03 – Sat. 14/04/2012
Text in response to the work by Ya-Wen Ho

Impersonations; An Exploration

// Opening, 6pm Wed. 28/03
// Thurs. 29/03 – Sat. 14/04/2012

The innate inhabitants of our everyday lives embody an archive of personal experiences about language and the real. When placed in unusual contexts or situations the innate signification of objects is reinvented. Hence, these objects become impersonators of a new lexicon that works to refresh tired attitudes to meaning in the quotidian.

A conversation is initiated; the object is a vortex of information that is refracting and reinventing itself in response to every thought, idea or speculation that is put upon it. The seemingly mundane is transformed into an enigmatic vessel that announces its presence by posing urgent questions and therefore commanding undue or perhaps overdue attention. Within this realm these objects are a repository for past, present and future experiences.

The displaced and confused everyday object makes us aware of the unfathomable complexity of things in the world. As a consequence of this; a quality of mystery is salvaged from the potentially banal. Ostensibly mundane objects are given the means and potential to transcend the known and hence stimulate inquisitive minds, to further speculation on the nature of the real.

— Kelsey Stankovich, 15 March 2012

Text in response to the exhibition by Andy Thomson:

Just Say Horse

HI-VIZ LO-RES

// Thurs. 08/03 – Sat. 24/03, 2012
// Opening 6pm Wed. 07/03

Hamish Win on HI-VIS LO-RES

Prime

// Thurs. 16/02 – Sat. 3/03/2012
// Opening, 6pm Wed. 15/02

2 storage solutions
*NNPW* *OOAK*

// Thurs. 16/02 – Sat. 3/03/2012
// Opening, 6pm Wed. 15/02

// Closing event 6pm, Wednesday 21 December
// Thursday 8 – Friday 23 December 2011

For RM’s final exhibition of the year we have invited three artists to present recent works — local artist and co-founder of Canary Gallery, James A Wallace returns for his for project with us since we’ve moved to Karangahape Road, whilst this is our first time working with Wellington’s Liz Allan and Seoul-based artist Jooyoung Lee.

Orange Milk

// Thurs. 24/11 – Sat. 3/12, 2011

// Opening 6pm Wed. 23/11

How does the aesthetics of modern technology fit with the aesthetics of two contemporary female artists?

In Donaldson’s assemblages, an idea is rotating with enough centrifugal force that its constituent parts are separating. Old and new school, machine-made and hand-crafted objects cohabit, often speaking against their own materials. The infamous CERN laboratory is rendered on silk; driftwood sits beside resin. The shiny splendour of a luminous, milky phallus is undone somewhat by vinyl spangled with potato-printed shapes in assuming apricot.

Steedman’s intimate studies recall the terrifying glory of cosmic phenomena; including the solar flares, gas giants and sunspots of 70s science books. Unimaginable heat and vaporous convection are conveyed in splotchy watercolours.

Although each has her own distinct handwriting – combining as intriguingly orange and milk – both Cusha Donaldson’s and Rebecca Steedman’s works appear to harbour a suspicious fascination with science, an arena in which, despite knowing better, we still surrender all our faith and derive all our arrogance.

– Rose Hoare

Thurs. 17/11 – Sat. 03/12, 2011

A selection of readings, events and ephemera developed in response to the

RM Archive

Over the last six months we have been working with our intern Ena Kosovac to turn our archives into a more accessible resource. For three weeks a section of the archive moves into our foyer space where it will become part of a developing conversation around time-capsules, time-shifting and the compulsion to save material for an unknowable future.

Miguel Arzabe
Jeffrey Gibson
Hendrikje Kuehne / Beat Klein
Richard Maloy
Michael Ned Holte
Mariele Neudecker
Rune Olsen
Allison Smith
Ola Ståhl
Hadi Tabatabai

// Thurs. 27/10 – Sat. 12/11, 2011

// Opening 6pm Wed. 26/10

An exhibition developed by Richard Maloy, Drift of Summer brings together a number of the people that he worked alongside while undertaking the Headland Center for the Arts residency in California last year.

To coincide with this exploration of artist in residence programs, Richard has invited Mladen Bizumic to create a new work for RM’s foyer space.

Artists in Residence
(Proposal for Auckland)

// Thurs. 27/10 – Sat. 12/11, 2011

// Opening 6pm Wed. 26/10