Join us for the opening of Taputapu Ātea by Tracey Tawhiao.
Free event, all welcome, refreshments provided. Doors open 6pm.
Multidisciplinary contemporary artist Tracey Tawhiao (Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāti Tuwharetoa and Whakatōhea) presents a new solo exhibition Taputapu Ātea at Tautai Gallery, opening Friday 28 October.
Taputapu Ātea is an installation of new paintings and digital works that explore the artificially intelligent future of our culture’s materialisation. Tracey explores Indigenous Futurism, and symbolises how Māori philosophy can give us a new/old way of looking at the future through creativity in relationship with each other and with nature.
Using everyday materials, such as tarpaulin, Tracey creates an installation visioning our future in an artificially intelligent world; the Art of it is represented in low tech materials and the Art Gallery acts as a storage facility for the tools we will need in our future. Art is our tool.