maramga-tanga, 2020

Solo exhibition at Window Gallery, 2020.

 

Exhibition information: link here

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This work as a body, sits within the space kept by the Māramataka (Māori lunar calendar)

A cycle consisting of thirty nights each associating to a phase in which the moon is in.

As a way to remember, out loud the names of the nights are spoken.

A literal way of breathing the life back into a cycle lost to another man’s keeping of time.

A time deemed fit only for the civilised.

A time now shared by all of us, the ‘enlightened’ race.

Mārama-tānga, speaks back to this task-orientated time and questions how - the ‘other’ time can be kept.

A keeping of time that extends to, a keeping of space.

A space whose surroundings stretch the contours of a place and act

as a guide to gathering material.