17th April – 11th May

It’s not a move it is a Transition investigates the privatization of correctional facilities in Aotearoa. Working from a removed position the exhibition draws on the connections to the justice system in Australia, and the relation homelessness and drug addiction have to incarceration.

The ongoing project is concerned with how current legal systems reduce a person to a set of criminal actions, individualizing and moralizing systemic issues. This process fails to take into consideration the heightened and targeted rates of incarceration amongst marginalized members of the community. It’s not a move it is a Transition reverses the process of current legal systems onto the viewer, asking them to take a position on the conditions of correctional facilities in Aotearoa.

Accompanying essay by Just Speak

I love more than two loves
Emerita Baik
27th March – 13 April

I Love More Than Two Loves is a solo exhibition by Emerita Baik. The tactile sculptures manifest the intangible experiences of people living with a language barrier. Baik explores traditional Korean quilting technique, Nubi as well as western quilting techniques to articulate the hybridisation of cultures. Within this, fabrics drawn from the everyday, such as bedsheets, shower curtains, blankets are juxtaposed with traditional Korean fabric, Ramie. The mark making on the surface responds to experiences of estrangement, challenging the familiar perceptions of the everyday through materiality.

Generously sponsored by The Fabric Store, Wellington.

Image credit: Hendrix Watson