Summary

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. With material taonga destroyed, removed or held in museums around the world, and the decline of immaterial or spiritual taonga, such as the loss of language, non-religious spiritual practice and ways of living; we must create the future with what we have - and multiply it exponentially.

Through this exhibition, 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.