Film screenings

Adam Art Gallery


Description

For Adam Art Gallery's final event of 2019 screening Sima Urale’s homage to the history of Dusky Maiden images and their appearance in the popular art of velvet painting. Part detective story, part documentary, Velvet Dreams follows an unseen narrator’s search for the ‘Polynesian princess’ he has fallen in love with through her seductive depiction in such a painting. Urale’s hilarious tongue-in-cheek exploration of Pacific Island stereotypes was an inspiration to the Mata Aho Collective in the making of 'Te Whare Pora', currently on view in the gallery. The screening will take place in the vicinity of Mata Aho’s own velvet masterpiece.


For more information contact: Ann Gale

ann.gale@vuw.ac.nz 04 463 6835