Maritime_ Trace_ Exposure_ at Oamaru’s Forrester Gallery
Maritime–trace–exposure, an exhibition by the artists group An Architecture of the Sea, will be on at the Forrester Gallery in Oamaru from 30 October 2021 to 7 February 2022. The Wellington Faculty of Architecture and Design Innovation’s Mizuho Nishioka and Tane Moleta are members of the group, alongside Wayne Barrar and Kerry Hines.
Utilising photography, moving image, poetry, sound and virtual space, the exhibition builds on the artists’ experience and observation of phenomena in relation to maritime surveying, sampling, and resource exploitation. It also considers the difference between day-to-day realities and expectations of maritime space and the versions we create through simulation, imagining and technologies – playing at the edges of science and ‘the real’ as we conventionally expect them to be.
Tane Moleta, Curator at the Wellington Faculty of Architecture and Design Innovation says, “Aotearoa is shaped by its relationship with the ocean and this exhibition is a diverse and unique exploration of maritime space. Wellington’s Te Aro campus is a hub of creative collaboration and we’re excited to showcase some of the work we create here in other parts of the country.”
Find out more at https://culturewaitaki.org.nz/forrester-gallery/exhibition/maritime-trace-exposure